Dozens of activists wearing fish-shaped cardboard hats stage a protest outside the Chinese consulate in Manila's Makati financial district June 11, 2013. REUTERS/Erik De Castro
BEIJING (Reuters) - China condemned on Friday what it called the "illegal occupation" of a disputed coral reef by the Philippines, and vowed to protect its sovereignty after Manila moved new soldiers and supplies to the remote location.
The Second Thomas Shoal, known in China as the Ren'ai reef, is at the centre of the latest territorial dispute between Beijing and Manila. Both countries have been locked in a decades-old territorial squabble over the South China Sea.
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