President Ferdinand R. Marcos, Jr. said he would send a diplomatic note to China to clarify its report denying that one of its coast guard vessels took by force a rocket debris that was being towed by a Philippine Navy ship in the South China Sea.
These are the things that we need to work out because with the way that the region, our region, Asia-Pacific is heating up, someone might make a mistake, cause a misunderstanding, then the fire would escalate,China’s foreign ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning told a regular briefing on Monday that the incident actually involved a“People from the Philippines side salvaged and towed the floating object first.
The Chinese Embassy in Manila also released a statement late Monday denying that the incident was adversarial.the embassy said, citing the Chinese ministry spokesperson.There was no so-called blocking of the course of a Philippine Navy boat and forcefully retrieving the object at the scene.with the Philippine Navy after finding that the floating object had already been retrieved and towed.
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