Manila: The Philippines Monday (April 28) criticized an irresponsible Chinese “Chinese” media report saying that a reef contested in the Southern China Sea was under the control of Beijing, saying that the status quo was unchanged.
The Sandy Cay reef is located near the island of Thitu, or Pag-Asa, where the resorts of the Philippines troops and maintains a coast guard surveillance base.
Chinese state broadcaster CCTV said on Saturday that the country's coastal guard had “Maritime control implemented” On the Tiexian reef, part of Sandy Cay, in mid-April.
The Philippines and China have been engaged in month of confrontations Above the Southern China Sea, which Beijing almost asserts in its entirety despite an international decision that its affirmation has no legal basis.
“There is no truth in the pretension of the Chinese Coast Guard that Sandy Cay's sand benches were seized,” said national security council Jonathan Malaya at a press conference.
“It is in the interest of the People's Republic of China to use the information space to intimidate and harass,” he said, qualifying Sandy Cay's report a “invented” history that had been “irresponsible” to disseminate.
