The Philippines has threatened international lawsuits against China for the action, which it says is another sign of the country's ongoing aggression in the area.
"The presence of the monster ship in Filipino waters … 77 nautical miles from our shoreline, is unacceptable and, therefore, it should be withdrawn immediately by the Chinese government," Jonathan Malaya, assistant director-general of the National Security Council, said at the news conference alongside senior military and coast guard officials."We do not and will not dignify these scare tactics by backing down. We do not waver or cower in the face of intimidation.
China, Vietnam, the Philippines, Brunei and Malaysia each claim different areas of the South China Sea.The Chinese government has repeatedly accused the Philippines and other rival claimant states including Vietnam and Malaysia of encroaching on what it says are "undisputed" Chinese territorial waters.
That has brought Philippine forces into frequent confrontation with China's coast guard, navy and suspected militia boats and sparked fears that a bigger armed conflict could draw in the United States, the Philippines' longtime treaty ally and China's regional rival. The Philippines responded by bringing its disputes with China to international arbitration in 2013 and largely won three years later when an arbitration panel in The Hague invalidated China's expansive claims in the busy sea passage under the 1982 United Convention on the Law of the Sea."Will this lead to another case?" Mr Malaya said.
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