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00:00 China denied that they removed the floating barrier in Bajo de Masinloc
00:05 but the Philippine Coast Guard clarified about it.
00:08 The President thinks that the barriers were cut correctly.
00:12 Rafi Tima has a report.
00:14 The group of Captain Loloi reached the inside of Bajo de Masinloc,
00:20 which is rich in fish.
00:21 But they couldn't enter because of the Chinese Coast Guard's prohibition.
00:24 It's not allowed.
00:26 If you're the only one who's bullying, you'll be bullied.
00:29 You'll be bullied.
00:31 They'll be in Laot for a week, but they caught only 500 kilos.
00:36 That's not enough to make up for the loss.
00:39 In the China Coast Guard's deployment of floating barriers,
00:42 they saw nothing else that President Marcos could do
00:45 but to remove them.
00:46 We're avoiding chaos,
00:48 avoiding hot words,
00:51 but our defense in the territory of the Philippines is strong.
00:57 We will continue to defend the Philippines,
01:01 the rights of our fishermen.
01:05 But the Philippines' aggression in the territory
01:08 was denied by China and was called a "defense against itself."
01:11 They said that they will continue to defend China, their unenlightened territory.
01:15 The China Coast Guard called it an invention
01:17 that the Philippine Coast Guard cut the barriers.
01:20 They are the ones who removed them.
01:23 Our Coast Guard explained.
01:24 It's the Chinese Coast Guard who recovered their own barrier.
01:28 What we only did is we cut the anchor and we took the anchor with us.
01:32 Earlier, the PCG showed the anchor attached to the floating barriers.
01:37 And over the past year, we've seen it...
01:38 This issue reached the hearing of the U.S. Foreign Affairs Congressional Committee.
01:42 According to U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Lindsay Ford,
01:46 the cut of the PCG to the floating barriers of China
01:49 is one of the many incidents of the protest of small countries
01:53 that China is cutting.
01:55 The Philippine Coast Guard took a bold step in defending their own sovereignty
01:59 by removing a floating barrier installed by the PRC Coast Guard near Scarborough Shoal.
02:03 The Ministry of National Defense of China said
02:06 that America is the one who is causing chaos in the South China Sea.
02:10 Rafi Timah reporting for GMA Integrated News.
02:15 (music)
02:19 (music)
02:22 [MUSIC PLAYING]
02:25 (upbeat music)

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