(Eagle News) — The Palace on Tuesday echoed Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana’s statement that a diplomatic protest should be filed if it is proven that China deployed soldiers to Kagitingan Reef.
But Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said that “when we invoke the good faith of China, it is against making further reclamations and not making further works on islands that it had already reclaimed.”
He said Kagitingan was one of the islands it already reclaimed.
“When we say we are relying on China’s good faith, it is because China has committed not to embark on new reclamations,” Roque said.
Lorenzana earlier said that China should fulfill its promise it will not militarize reclaimed islands in the contested territories in the West Philippine Sea.
“If it is true and we can prove that they have been putting soldiers and even weapons systems that will be a violation of what they said,” he said.
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