released : 6 Feb 2023 at 17: 24 Philippines Coast Guard Commandant Admiral Artemio Abu speaks throughout an interview with Reuters at the Philippine Coast Guard headoffice in Manila, Philippines on Monday. (Reuters picture) MANILA: The Philippine Coast Guard has stepped up its existence in the contested South China Sea by releasing extra vessels and performing more sorties and overflights to safeguard maritime area and the nation’s anglers, its chief stated on Monday. Beijing’s sweeping declares of sovereignty over the waterway haveactually drawn duplicated problems from Manila, which hasactually ramped up its rhetoric versus reported Chinese buildingandconstruction activities and the “swarming” of Chinese vessels in the resource-rich waterway. “We’re making sure that the existence of coast guard vessels is felt by the anglers in the location,” Admiral Artemio Abu, Commandant of the Philippines Coast Guard (PCG), stated in an interview. Last month, PCG stated it got a report that a Filipino fishing boat was required by China’s coast guard to leave the Second Thomas Shoal, recognized inyourarea as Ayungin Shoal, which lies within the nation’s special financial zone. China’s embassy in Manila did not respond whe
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