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View all search resultsAuthorities spotted the boats around the boomerang-shaped Whitsun Reef in April -- a year after a similar "swarming" incident caused a diplomatic row -- but the foreign office waited till Thursday to disclose it had launched a formal complaint with the Chinese embassy in Manila.
"We have a very important ruling in our favour and we will use it to continue to assert our territorial rights. It is not a claim. It is already our territorial right," Marcos said in an interview with selected local media.
The omission of the South China Sea nevertheless is glaring, as it is the one issue that China and the 10-member ASEAN need to address, one way or another, as they talk about building closer relations in the future.
Vietnam on Wednesday accused China of violating its sovereignty by conducting military drills in a disputed part of the South China Sea and said Beijing's actions were "complicating" negotiations on establishing a code of conduct in the region.
The first five Rafale fighter jets bought from France in a multi-billion-dollar deal landed in India on Wednesday, and the defense minister used their arrival to launch a veiled warning to neighboring China over territorial tensions.
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