The Philippines will "vivaciously shield what is our own", Leader Ferdinand Marcos said on Saturday, as Manila's sea column with Beijing over the South China Ocean heightens. Marcos told a Philippine Military Foundation graduation function that the Southeast Asian nation confronted "a barefaced dismissal of globally acknowledged standards". His comments follow a progression of episodes including Philippine and Chinese vessels close to questioned reefs in the South China Ocean that have stressed strategic ties.
Marcos requested the alumni to "protect our kin in their homes, our region secure, our safeguards against areas of strength for dangers, our majority rule government stable". "Against gatecrashers who have been affronting our regional honesty, we will vivaciously guard what is our own," Marcos said in the discourse, which didn't explicitly specify China. China Coast Watchman vessels have utilized water cannon against Philippine boats a few times as of late in the challenged waters, where there have likewise been impacts.
Beijing claims a large portion of the South China Ocean, dismissing rival claims from different nations, including the Philippines, and a worldwide decision that its statement over the stream has no lawful premise. To press its cases, Beijing conveys coast watch and different boats to watch the stream and has transformed a few reefs into fake islands that it has mobilized. A Philippine non military personnel guard cruised towards Scarborough Sandbar to bring fuel and food supplies for Filipino anglers in the space this week. It later turned around after one of the boats was shadowed by a Chinese naval force transport.
China shields its activities by saying that it goes to fundamental lengths against vessels it says are an encroaching on its area. Marcos said the Philippines' direct would be "constantly directed by regulation and our obligation as a standards withstanding individual from the local area of countries". He has said that Manila won't answer in kind to the utilization of water gun against its vessels.