China's 'nine-dash line' used to claim most of the South China Sea is a fabrication, the Philippine defence minister said, as he accused Beijing ...
A Philippine coastguard ship BRP Langgam sails past a Chinese coastguard ship near the Scarborough shoal in 2019 AFP/TED ALJIBEMANILA: China's"nine-dash line" used to claim most of the South China Sea is a fabrication, the Philippine defence minister said, as he accused Beijing of illegally occupying Filipino maritime territory.
"That area is within our EEZ," Defence Secretary Delfin Lorenzana told reporters in a text message, referring to the country's exclusive economic zone."Their so-called historical rights over an area enclosed by their 9-line doesn't exist except in their imaginations. "They are the ones who have been doing provocations by illegally occupying some features within our EEZ. Hence they have no right to claim they are enforcing their laws."
It also accused Philippine military aircraft of invading Chinese airspace in another disputed section of the sea and urged Manila to"immediately stop illegal provocative activities".
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