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Frances Mangosing 🇵🇭
@Frances_Mng
Freelance journalist. Defense, diplomacy. 📧: [email protected]
Manila
Joined August 2014
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    China Coast Guard recently deployed 2 ships around Ayungin (Second Thomas) Shoal, warning PH supply boats against carrying construction materials to repair the Philippine Navy’s BRP Sierra Madre. We recently joined a resupply mission there. globalnation.inquirer.net/204769/eyewitn…
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    You are in the Philippines! Go back to China! 🤡🤡🤡
    “This is China! Go back to the Philippines!"
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    China's recent claims over the Philippine Sea are unfounded and lack legal basis. The international community must uphold the rule of law and respect the sovereign rights of nations. x.com/theadtan/statu… x.com/_nullid/status…
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    That’s not any of 🇨🇳 business. 🤷🏻‍♀️ Ayungin is within 🇵🇭 exclusive economic zone
    #GTExclusive: Videos disclose so-called fishermen from the #Philippines secretly transported large quantities of construction materials to the illegally grounded warship in China's Ren'ai Jiao to illegally reinforce the warship.
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    In 2016, the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague ruled that China’s “nine-dash line” has no legal basis, confirming the waters around the Spratly Islands, including Second Thomas Shoal or Ayungin Shoal, are within the Philippines’ Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ). pca-cpa.org/en/cases/7/
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    TODAY: Philippines and India sign P18.9-B deal for BrahMos anti-ship cruise missile system for the Philippine Navy 🇵🇭🇮🇳 PH is the first foreign buyer of BrahMos supersonic cruise missiles 📸DND
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    China Coast Guard blasted water cannon toward a 🇵🇭 Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources vessels near Panatag (Scarborough) Shoal this morning (Dec. 9). The water cannons were used at least 8 times
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    Presidential spox Panelo’s statement when former SFA del Rosario was denied entry in HK in July: "We cannot question the authority, the right of a country to stop or to investigate any guest or visitor who wanted to enter that particular country. That's their exclusive domain.”
    Malacañang said the United States, as the Philippines’ long-time military ally, should have the courtesy to explain the cancellation of Senator Ronald “Bato” Dela Rosa’s visa. | @DJEsguerraINQ newsinfo.inquirer.net/1220152/fwd-ma…
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    WATCH: Chinese aircraft drops flares into the path of a PH Air Force plane conducting a routine maritime patrol over Bajo de Masinloc (Scarborough Shoal) in the West Philippine Sea last Aug. 8. Video shared to the Inquirer by a source.
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    Anonymous Filipino-Chinese donors give P100-million worth of medical equipment to be used by PH health workers at the frontlines of coronavirus pandemic. A C-130 plane of the Philippine Air Force picked up the supplies in Fuzhou, China on Saturday.
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    VIDEO: China coast guard fires water cannon at Philippine civilian boats delivering supplies in Ayungin (Second Thomas) Shoal. Video from National Security Adviser Hermogenes Esperon Jr.
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    China Coast Guard blocked and used water cannon Philippine vessels on a resupply mission to the BRP Sierra Madre in Ayungin (Second Thomas) Shoal in the West Philippine Sea on Saturday (Aug. 5). The PH military and coast guard issued brief statements condemning the incident
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    An aerial inspection of areas affected by #PaengPH showed 3 submerged decommissioned ships of the Philippine Navy (BRP Cebu, BRP Pangasinan, BRP Rajah Humabon) in a shipyard in Cavite City.
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    Video released by PH military shows Chinese coast guard personnel in rigid hull inflatable boats rushing to pick up airdropped food supplies meant for PH troops at 🇵🇭 BRP Sierra Madre in Ayungin (Second Thomas) Shoal globalnation.inquirer.net/238393/china-c…
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    “During times of crisis, the role of the President is to hold the nation together. He did not do that yesterday.”
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    The PH Coast Guard accuses the Chinese coast guard of pointing a “military-grade” laser at one of its vessels near Ayungin (Second Thomas) Shoal in the West Philippine Sea last week, causing flash blindness to the Filipino crew globalnation.inquirer.net/210843/china-h…