MANILA, Philippines — The country has already filed around 100 diplomatic protests against China’s various incursions in the West Philippine Sea despite the Duterte administration’s vaunted “pivot to China” foreign policy.
“We have filed 99 protest notes, as of 28 May 2021,” Ivy Banzon-Abalos, executive director of the Department of Foreign Affairs’ (DFA) office for strategic communications, told reporters on Saturday.
The DFA on Friday filed the 100th diplomatic protest against the “incessant deployment, prolonged presence, and illegal activities” of Chinese vessels particularly off Pag-asa (Thitu) Island.
The DFA asserted that the “Pag-asa Islands is an integra…
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