Philippines files protest vs China; envoy no-show at DFA

Department of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Ma. Teresita Daza yesterday said they summoned Chinese Ambassador Huang Xilian to convey the protest, but it was Deputy Chief of Mission Zhou Zhiyong who showed up, as the ambassador was reportedly out of town. The DCM met with DFA Assistant Secretary Aileen Mendiola-Rau.

The Philippines has filed a total of 465 protests since January 2020, according to Daza. Manila has lodged 122 protests under the Marcos administration. For this year alone, 55 protests have been filed. She noted that the Philippine vessels were undertaking routine and regular humanitarian mission for Philippine military personnel on board the Sierra Madre as allowed under international law.

In a statement, the State Department said the Chinese “violated international law by intentionally interfering with the Philippine vessels’ exercise of high seas freedom of navigation.” It said Sunday’s incident was the latest in the string of provocations by the Chinese in Philippine waters. The US also has reaffirmed that Article IV of the 1951 US-Philippines Mutual Defense Treaty extends to armed attacks on Philippine armed forces, public vessels and aircraft, including those on its Coast Guard, anywhere in the South China Sea.

“It’s not the Philippines that is increasing tensions. It’s China that is increasing tensions in the West Philippine Sea, especially by interfering in blocking our legitimate resupply mission to Ayungin Shoal,” Malaya said. Former senator Richard Gordon, for his part, has called on the government to stand firm in defense of the country’s territorial integrity.

“We have sovereign rights over Ayungin Shoal, it being in our exclusive economic zone. We must protect those rights,” he said.

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