The country will put up a strong defence of its territory and the rights of its fishermen and is not looking for trouble, its president said, as a row simmers with China over access to a strategic South China Sea Shoal.
The Philippine coastguard this week had cut a 300m floating barrier installed by China that blocked access to the hotly disputed Scarborough Shoal, an area Beijing has controlled for over a decade.
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