“While China may have an advantage in the South China Sea because of its existing structures built on artificial islands, which it has hardened and militarized, it is in position, and to a certain degree, has possession of only a very small part of the South China Sea,” Defense Spokesman Arsenio Andolong said.
Andolong likened this incident to “squatting” since he said the Philippines has under its name two documents which ultimately gave sovereign rights over parts of the South China Sea, particularly the country’s 200-nautical mile exclusive economic zone that is the West Philippine Sea . “Although several claimant-countries are occupying features in the South China Sea, not one of them has complete and sole control over that entire body of water,” Andolong noted.
Aside from China and Vietnam, other countries which have overlapping claims in the South China Sea include Taiwan, Malaysia, Vietnam and Brunei among others.
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