00:00The Philippine Navy confirmed that a research vessel of China
00:04was spotted in the archipelagic waters of the Philippines.
00:08It was damaged because of the bad weather,
00:11but a security analyst saw that the ship had a different hull.
00:16Chino Gaston was on the scene.
00:17This is the B.R.P. Teresa Magbanua.
00:21Aside from the ships of China that are in the West Philippine Sea,
00:25a Chinese research vessel was also spotted
00:28in the eastern part of Palawan,
00:30inside the archipelagic waters of the Philippines yesterday.
00:34This is the Lan Hai 101,
00:36a Chinese ship with a length of 95 meters.
00:40The Chinese vessel entered the social media post
00:42of the American security analyst, Ray Powell.
00:46The AFP confirmed that on February 9,
00:50the Chinese vessel entered the eastern part of the EEZ of the country.
00:55It was spotted at the AFP's littoral monitoring station on Balabac Island,
01:00one of the EDGA sites of the United States and the Philippines.
01:04The AFP's Western Command immediately sent
01:07the B.R.P. Andres Bonifacio and Coast Guard Offshore Patrol Vessel
01:11B.R.P. Melchora Aquino to monitor the Chinese research vessel
01:16that came from Malaysia and headed to China.
01:18It was challenged on Sunday afternoon
01:20by our monitoring stations in Balabac.
01:24They responded.
01:25They gave their last port of call, their next port of call,
01:28the skipper's name, with 56 crew members,
01:32and they were passing through our archipelagic sea lanes
01:36because of the inclement weather in the western part of Palawan.
01:41Under the doctrine of innocent passage,
01:44anyone can pass through the territorial or archipelagic seas of other countries
01:50as long as it is continuous and does not stop.
01:53This is the expected behavior of foreign ships
01:56from any nationality, from any country,
01:59that passes through our archipelagic waters.
02:23For the GMA Integrated News, Shino Gaston, Nakatutok, 24 Horas.
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