The Philippines went on the offensive on Tuesday to assert its sovereign rights over a fishing ground in the Pacific Ocean, stressing a need to protect it after a Chinese survey ship was monitored in the area last year.
Manila has lodged a diplomatic protest with Beijing after a Chinese vessel was tracked moving back and forth over Benham Rise, a vast area east of the Philippines declared by the United Nations in 2012 as part of its continental shelf.
President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday called for “structures” to be erected in the area to denote Philippine jurisdiction
source http://www.omnipopmag.com/2017/03/14/philippines-stresses-rights-to-undersea-area-amid-suspicions-about-china/
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