President Marcos said the Philippines has no intention of attacking any vessel with water cannon in the West Philippine Sea (WPS), stressing that it will not replicate China's actions at sea.
Marcos reiterated that the Philippines is "only defending our sovereign rights and our sovereignty in the West Philippine Sea" and it has no plan to put any kind of cannon on its ships.
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Marcos reiterated that the Philippines is "only defending our sovereign rights and our sovereignty in the West Philippine Sea" and it has no plan to put any kind of cannon on its ships.
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00:00We are the what we are doing is defending our sovereign rights and our
00:11sovereignty in the West Philippine Sea and we have no intention of attacking
00:17anyone with water cannons or any other such offensive I mean you have to call
00:22them weapons damage now so no that is not something that's in the plan we the
00:29last thing we would like was to raise the tensions in the West Philippine Sea
00:33that's the last thing and that will certainly do that so indeed nothing got
00:37going we will not follow the the Chinese Coast Guard and Chinese vessels down
00:43that road because it's simply it's not it is not the mission of our Navy our
00:52Coast Guard to start or to increase tensions then their mission is precisely
00:58the opposite is to lower tensions and that's right so that's why
01:04we all we do is we know what they're coming in my market are you know Papa
01:09de la tayo and the marshman Papa de la tayo
01:13nunks who loves China and the other stakeholders so that would be the
01:20opposite of what we are trying to achieve would be to put some kind of
01:25some kind of water any kind of cannon on our on our ships
01:55you