00:00 China is under new threat.
00:03 Their ship, BRP Teresa Magbanwana, was sunk and surrounded by the Chinese.
00:07 It was brought to Sabina Shoal.
00:09 The Chinese defense minister also called for a country to break its promise
00:13 and to reach an agreement with the Chinese in the South China Sea.
00:17 This is what Ma'am Gonzalez is talking about.
00:19 A country in the South China Sea was repeatedly assigned by the Minister of National Defense of China
00:26 to the IISS Defense Summit in Singapore.
00:29 But she said that it is a joke and is made up by small stories that are affecting the stability of the region.
00:37 On behaviors of fabricating historic facts, spreading false narratives,
00:43 attempting to enforce the illegal arbitration award and confusing right with wrong,
00:50 a certain country, emboldened by outside powers,
00:54 has broken bilateral agreements and its own promises,
00:59 made premeditated provocations and created false scenarios to mislead the public.
01:06 China is being negligent in what it is doing.
01:10 China has exercised a great restraint in the face of such infringements and provocations.
01:17 But there is a limit to our restraint.
01:20 We hope this country could see where its true interests lie,
01:25 return to the right track of dialogue and consultation.
01:29 She also insisted that countries in the Asia-Pacific region can solve our problems and China is ready to help.
01:38 The country's Admiral Dong Jun has no worries.
01:41 But China and the Philippines are now hotly engaged in the territories in the West Philippine Sea.
01:47 China does not recognize the 2016 arbitral ruling that would remove a visa
01:52 and a crash line claim of China in the South China Sea.
01:56 China has harassed Philippine ships inside our Exclusive Economic Zone several times.
02:05 While the Defense Summit is underway,
02:07 the Chinese vessels are continuing to multiply in the Sabina or Escoda Shoals in the West Philippine Sea.
02:12 In the monitoring of the sea light,
02:14 there is a China Coast Guard and two Chinese Maritime Militia Vessels
02:18 that are circling the BRP Teresa Magbanwa of the Philippine Coast Guard.
02:22 In the past few days, the Chinese vessels have been getting closer.
02:26 They seem to be interested in what it's doing there and trying to intimidate it.
02:32 Sabina Shoal is really the closest shoal to Palawan.
02:36 So for China to kind of take an opportunity to try to lay ownership to it is alarming.
02:45 BRP Teresa Magbanwa was sent a PCG to investigate the alleged construction of artificial islands in the West Philippine Sea
02:54 by destroying coral reefs.
02:58 For Sea Light Director Ray Powell,
03:00 it's a good sign that the ships are destined to be there,
03:03 especially since the Chinese ships are multiplying in the Sabina Shoal.
03:06 Recently, the Philippines was investigating Sabina Shoal
03:11 and believes that it has found some coral that appears to have been dumped there
03:16 as perhaps a prelude to some early island building kind of activity.
03:21 I don't know if that's true.
03:23 But whatever it is that they're up to,
03:25 they clearly don't like the idea that Teresa Magbanwa is there watching them.
03:29 For GMA Integrated News, Mav Gonzales was on the news for 24 hours.
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