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[Wang Hui @wanghui90]

China’s coast guard & maritime militia regularly show up in the Philippines waters of the West Philippine Sea, threatening its sovereignty & territorial integrity.

Beijing calls it “law enforcement” based on "FICTITIOUS HISTORY". The world sees a pattern of PRESSURE @Sohnie

[Nguyen Ho @NguyenHo1096438]

Does China not recognize a basic geographic reality? Scarborough Shoal (which China refers to as Huangyan Dao) is located well within 200 nautical miles of the Philippine coastline, while it lies over 1,000 nautical miles from mainland China.

[GMA News @gmanews]

China expressed strong opposition on Friday to a decision by Japan and the Philippines to start maritime border negotiations, calling the talks "illegal" and claiming exclusive control over the waters concerned.

The two island nations announced on Thursday they would start formal talks "to delimit the maritime boundary" of an economic zone and continental shelf between them, as Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. met Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi on a visit to Tokyo.

But Beijing again asserted on Friday that it has an "exclusive economic zone and continental shelf" in the waters to the east of Taiwan.

READ: https://t.co/QDaQGY6dIU

[Nguyen Thi hong @NguyenThih36]

In 1995: China said #MischiefReef was just a fishermen’s shelter
20 years later: missile defenses, naval facilities & a full airbase sit on the reef

China didn’t build trust; it built a military fortress under the cover of diplomacy. The South China Sea is suffering.

[Nguyen Ho @NguyenHo1096438]

First of all, kudos to Philippines for documenting the ground reality of South China Sea which clearly shows how China keeps bullying smaller states.

[Chel Diokno @ChelDiokno]

Hindi impressive ang legal background kung ginagamit lang sa pangmamaliit. Mas nakakabahala ang may alam sa batas pero pinipiling baluktutin ito.

[Nguyen Ho @NguyenHo1096438]

Reminding you all that the name, South China Sea should be rejected.

It should be called Southeast Asia Sea.

[BRP Sierra Madre @BRPSierraMadre]

The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) monitored 36 Chinese coast guard and naval vessels in the West Philippine Sea within just one week, reflecting the continued use of “gray zone tactics” — aggressive actions designed to intimidate and pressure without triggering open conflict.

These tactics include the constant presence of warships, swarming of maritime areas, intimidation of Filipino fishermen, and the normalization of foreign intrusion in Philippine waters. While presented as routine patrols, these actions slowly erode Philippine sovereignty and test the nation’s resolve in defending its lawful maritime rights.

Despite these pressures, Filipino frontliners continue to stand firm in protecting the country’s waters, livelihood, and national dignity. The West Philippine Sea is not just a strategic waterway — it is a vital source of food, livelihood, and future for millions of Filipinos.

No amount of intimidation can erase the Philippines’ lawful rights in its own seas.

#BRPSierraMadre #WestPhilippineSea #WPS #NationalSecurity #unitedfrontworks #illegalActivities #NotOneMore

[Isabella Anderson @IsabellaAn67]

Let it be clear, CHINA DOESN'T WANT PEACE!

Negotiating peace deals with China & engaging in dialogues with China is a WASTE OF TIME!

Aggression, chaos, anarchy & disturbance is what China seeks propagate.

[xander0617 Ⓥ  @xander0617]

Tapyasin ang baba ni Imee Marcos 👏

[xander0617 Ⓥ  @xander0617]

@dzbb @SenImeeMarcos @alanpcayetano @nimfaravelo Ginawa mong circus ang senado kadiri ka ang how low can you go? Gaano ka BABA ang kaya mo pa ibaba?

[xander0617 Ⓥ  @xander0617]

RT @gmanews: BREAKING: Supreme Court denies Sen. Bato dela Rosa’s request for TRO due to lack of merit.

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[xander0617 Ⓥ  @xander0617]

“Senator” @SenImeeMarcos sobrang BABA naman ng ibinaba mo propagandista level.

[Nguyen Ho @NguyenHo1096438]

Anyone can see which vessel deliberately altered course and rammed the Filipino ship.

There was more than enough room for Chinese vessel to navigate safely, so why intentionally collide with a Filipino vessel unless provocation was the goal?
https://t.co/kS1obuZpMZ

[GMA News @gmanews]

BREAKING NEWS - EXCLUSIVE: Sen. Rodante Marcoleta is facing plunder, indirect bribery complaints at the Ombudsman for P75 million campaign donations. | via @Joseph_Morong

Visit https://t.co/T4xNFFr7iQ for updates.

[Dr. Minh Tran @MinhDr18]

Chinese warship orders a Philippine patrol plane to leave "China’s waters."

Philippines replied "Review your charts."

They should’ve said, "Review your common sense" because these waters are 220 km from Philippines & 1000 km from China

Clearly, China isn’t in its right mind

[Jay Tarriela @jaytaryela]

The @Chinaembmanila has now spent four posts attacking me as Mr. Jay Tarriela. When the facts are on your side, you do not write essays against the person stating them — you correct the record. Evidently, China cannot, so it attacks the messenger instead.

On the bridges, vaccines, and aid: no one denies they were given, and Filipinos are not ungrateful. But development assistance is not a receipt that entitles the giver to violate another nation’s sovereign rights. A neighbor who builds you a bridge and then blocks your fishermen from waters lawfully theirs is not a friend. Generosity in one domain does not buy impunity in another. Sovereignty is not for sale.

On the 2016 Arbitral Award: the Embassy calls it “null and void,” yet it was rendered under UNCLOS — a treaty China voluntarily ratified in 1996. The Tribunal settled its jurisdiction in 2015 before reaching the merits in 2016, and under Annex VII, the Award is final and binding on both parties. A State cannot ratify a treaty, accept its dispute mechanism, lose, and then declare the result illegal. That is not a legal argument.

On the claim that “no country claims the entire South China Sea”: this is wordplay, not law. The Tribunal found China’s nine-dash-line assertion of “historic rights” had no legal basis under UNCLOS. Rebranding it as “Nanhai Zhudao and adjacent waters” does not relegalize a claim that has already been rejected.

And the point that matters most: no volume of vaccines, no number of bridges, and no press release changes what our fishermen see at Bajo de Masinloc — water cannons, dangerous maneuvers, military-grade lasers, and obstruction within our own exclusive economic zone. These are not “rescues.” You cannot harass a fisherman in his own waters and then claim to be saving him.

My statements need no scary music. The coordinates speak for themselves. The footage is not storytelling; it is evidence. China’s presence in the West Philippine Sea remains illegal under the very Convention it signed — and no amount of public relations will change that!

[BRP Sierra Madre @BRPSierraMadre]

IF CHINA RESPECTS PEACE, WHY DOES IT FEAR FACTS?

Calling Filipino Spokesperson, journalists, researchers and media “anti-China” does not erase reality.

The Hague ruling exists.
Filipino fishermen were harassed.
Water cannons were used.
Philippine vessels were blocked in our own waters.

Those are not “Western narratives.”
Those are documented incidents witnessed by the world.

And here’s the irony:
The @Chinaembmanila accuses others of propaganda while attacking critics, avoiding hard questions, and refusing to address the core issue — Philippine rights under international law.

Filipinos can support peace and diplomacy without surrendering truth and sovereignty.

Question:
If China is really confident in its claims, why attack Filipino people who defend sovereign rights instead of respecting international law?
#BRPSierraMadre #WPS #WestPhilippineSea #unclos2016 #arbitralruling #chinabully

[Jay Tarriela @jaytaryela]

There is nothing to hype. The “China threat” is not rhetoric — it is the daily reality of your incursions, agressive actions, your harassment, and your unlawful presence in the West Philippine Sea.

Filipinos do not need to be told what they already see.

[Jay Tarriela @jaytaryela]

Thank you for the map — it actually proves our point. The feature that the @Chinaembmanila label 美济礁 is Panganiban Reef, a low-tide elevation sitting well within the Philippines’ 200-nautical-mile Exclusive Economic Zone. Under UNCLOS — a treaty China signed — low-tide elevations cannot be appropriated as territory, generate no territorial sea, and certainly generate no ‘Chinese-controlled airspace.’ This is not Manila’s opinion. It is the binding 2016 Arbitral Award, which the People’s Republic of China remains legally bound by no matter how loudly it pretends otherwise.

So let us be clear: the Philippines does not recognize, has never recognized, and will never recognize any ‘Chinese presence’ on a coral reef that Beijing illegally bulldozed, reclaimed, and militarized inside our own maritime zone. There is no sensitive ‘military facility’ there in the eyes of international law — only an unlawful installation built on a feature that belongs to no one but the Philippine sovereign maritime entitlement.