MALACAÑANG on Tuesday downplayed reports about China’s supposed plan to “take back” Pag-asa island in the disputed Spratlys, dismissing them as, at the very least, “unverified.”
In separate text messages to The Manila Times, Palace spokesman Edwin Lacierda and Presidential Communications Secretary Herminio Coloma Jr. said that talks about the planned “invasion” of Pagasa island came from unofficial sources.
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