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JUST days before 2025 ended, we were treated to an exchange of barbs between some Philippine government officials and the Chinese Embassy here in Manila. Ironically, this started when a Chinese People’s Liberation Army Navy ship assisted a Filipino fisherman whose boat got stranded somewhere in the contested areas in the South China Sea. Aside from the help it extended to the fisherman, the Chinese Navy contacted the Philippine Coast Guard via radio to facilitate the fisherman’s rescue. Right after the incident, PCG Commodore Jay Tarriela issued a statement not only denying the radio contact made by the Chinese Navy…
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