President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. said the Philippines will respond to China's new map featuring the 10-dash line that occupies the entire South China Sea but did not divulge how.

Instead, Marcos said the country will continue to stand its ground and defend its territory, leveraging the 2016 arbitral ruling favoring the country over the West Philippine Sea.

"Ngayon (Now), of course, we'll continue to defend our territorial sovereignty, our territorial rights. We have not changed our approach, it is other countries around us that have changed their approach," he said on Friday, Sept. 1. (Video Courtesy of RTVM)

READ: https://mb.com.ph/2023/9/1/marcos-on-china-s-new-10-dash-line-map-we-have-to-respond-to-this-we-ll-continue-to-defend-ph-s-territory

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