MANILA, Philippines—Philippine National Security Adviser Hermogenes Esperon Jr. is encouraging Filipino fishermen to go out fishing in the resource-rich West Philippine Sea and uphold the country’s rights over the area.
“Let us enjoy what we can enjoy from the West Philippine Sea,” he said at an online forum on Wednesday (April 21), assuring that government vessels had been deployed to the area to protect Filipino fishermen.
Reports persist about China driving away Filipino fishermen inside the Philippines’ exclusive economic zone (EEZ), which analysts said was a sign of President Rodrigo Duterte’s embrace of China harming, instead of benefiting, the Philippines.
China claims almost…
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