China’s blaming the grounded BRP Sierre Madre for damage to marine environment is “hypocritical,” Defense Secretary Gilbert Teodoro said yesterday, as he lambasted Beijing for issuing “disingenuous propaganda lines” that have only exposed its insincerity.
“The statement of China that the grounded Sierra Madre is causing irrevocable harm is, to put it as politely as possible, hypocritical. Talk about the pot calling the kettle black,” Teodoro said in a statement.
But Teodoro argued that China has been violating international law, including the 2016 arbitral award, with its untrammeled reclamation activities and plunder of marine resources. He accused China of resorting to making false claims to defend its illegal actions in the West Philippine Sea.
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