FOR ages now, Chinese vessels have yet to leave the West Philippine Sea and Philippine vessels alone.

In the last years of the 1990s, the best way to describe what China was doing to our territory was a "creeping invasion" in the West Philippine Sea. China set up concrete outposts in Mischief Reef.

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