FILIPINO fishermen should ignore a Chinese rule requiring foreign fishing vessels to secure permission to enter much of the West Philippine Sea (South China Sea), Defense Secretary Voltaire Gazmin said on Thursday.
The rule was passed in November by China’s southern island province of Hainan and took effect this year as tensions have escalated over overlapping claims to the waters between China, the Philippines, Vietnam and other nations.
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