MANILA, Philippines — Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. said Sunday he is “considering a demarche” or a protest presented through diplomatic channels after China claimed the Julian Felipe Reef (Whitsun) in the West Philippine Sea as being part of its own territory.
“Oddly, if it is a strategy and not idiocy then swarming accomplishes nothing; they were doing this in consonance with claim of traditional fishing. Chinese were doing this in 1s, 2s and 3s,” he said over Twitter.
“Coming and going fishing makes no claim of possession per se; it is only when Chinese embassy claimed the area as Chinese territory—as evidenced by the swarm—that it becomes prob…
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