Chinese Coast Guard vessels fire water cannons towards a Philippine resupply vessel Unaizah May 4 on its way to a resupply mission at Second Thomas Shoal in the South China Sea, March 5, 2024. REUTERS/Adrian Portugal TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY
Published March 10, 2024
(Bloomberg) —Philippine Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro has directed the military to enforce a new strategy to defend the nation’s territory and economic interests, days after the latest clash with Chinese ships in the disputed South China Sea.
“We are developing our capability to protect and secure our entire territory and Exclusive Economic Zone in order to ensure that our people and all the generations of Filipinos to come shall freely reap and enjoy the bounties of the natural resources that are rightfully ours,” Teodoro said in a statement issued on Friday.
Early this week, four Filipino personnel were injured after two Chinese coast-guard vessels used water cannons against a ship chartered by the Philippine military for a resupply operation. Philippine and Chinese ships collided as Chinese vessels made “dangerous blocking maneuvers,” Manila said.
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