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00:00It is now bigger than the city of Manila, which was reclaimed by China in the South China Sea, according to the Philippine Navy.
00:08The Philippine Navy is also monitoring a Chinese vessel that is rumored to be sailing on the Sabina or Escoda shore.
00:15Marisol Abdurrahman has the first news.
00:21In the past, it was just garbage. But now, buildings and runways are growing.
00:27Subi or Zamora Reef is just one of the four major bases of China in the South China Sea,
00:34which was claimed by the Philippine Navy.
00:38It is even bigger than the city of Manila.
00:40The Philippine Navy cannot say how much China has reclaimed within the exclusive economic zone of the Philippines.
00:47Is there a creeping invasion? Yes. And this has begun since 1992.
00:51Their presence there is illegal. It has already been ruled by the arbitral tribunal.
00:56The Philippine Navy is also monitoring a Chinese survey ship that somehow left the Mischief or Panganiban Reef on July 27.
01:04It has sailed through areas within Sabina Shoal and southern part of Sabina Shoal.
01:08We have informed the appropriate government agency about this.
01:12The presence in the area has also increased.
01:14To know if the people are the ones who are smuggling the crushed garbage there.
01:18Unusual pile up of crushed corals.
01:21The Philippine government deployed a ship to monitor the activity there.
01:27Its presence is longer than the usual presence that we do.
01:32As of now, there is no illegal monitoring done by the Chinese research vessel,
01:37even though the zigzag pattern of the course is suspected.
01:41When you see an innocent passage or freedom of navigation, continuous and expeditious,
01:47when you zigzag, you are doing something else.
01:50The distance of the Sun House is 20 nautical miles from the shore,
01:54where the monster ship of the China Coast Guard is located.
01:57What do we do? Challenge and challenge and challenge? Yes.
02:00Just that? Yes.
02:01And if it warrants the filing of a diplomatic protest by the appropriate agency, in this case DFA,
02:07there is a procedure to give them all the data that they need.
02:10We are not really being chased until we are challenged? Yes.
02:15Why?
02:16Why? We don't want to escalate the situation.
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