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China is ignoring it so we will wait for our government to take action, the shoal is 100 percent ours and we cannot share it with China. – Luis Madarang	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
Win or lose, we will help our fishermen, it's very unfair for China to stay there or even share the resources in Scarborough Shoal because the Philippines owns that 100 percent. – Luis Madarang	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
We are playing a cat-and-mouse game with the Chinese, they're preventing us from getting near the shoal and they have armed soldiers in rubber boats chasing us. – Rubenado Querubin	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
We want the U.S. military to watch over our ships, which China attempts to block every time we rotate troops and bring supplies to a ship that ran aground on Ayungin shoal. – Colonel Restituto Padilla	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
New Korean-built light fighter aircraft could reach Scarborough Shoal in just minutes, and maritime patrol aircraft or drones could eventually provide persistent coverage of Chinese movements in the area, a return to Subic Bay, this time led by the Philippine air force, would seem to be a prudent defensive response. – Patrick Cronin	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The larger geo-strategic context is more important than Second Thomas Shoal. – Zhang Baohui	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Ultimately no matter how much sand China piles on top of a submerged reef or shoal ... it is not enhancing its territorial claim. You can't build sovereignty, he (Kerry) will leave his Chinese interlocutors in absolutely no doubt that the United States remains committed to maintaining freedom of navigation and to exercise our legitimate rights as pertaining to over flight and movement on the high seas. – The State Department official	Found on Reuters 8 years ago

China is ignoring it so we will wait for our government to take action, the shoal is 100 percent ours and we cannot share it with China.

– Luis Madarang

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

Win or lose, we will help our fishermen, it's very unfair for China to stay there or even share the resources in Scarborough Shoal because the Philippines owns that 100 percent.

– Luis Madarang

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

We are playing a cat-and-mouse game with the Chinese, they're preventing us from getting near the shoal and they have armed soldiers in rubber boats chasing us.

– Rubenado Querubin

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

We want the U.S. military to watch over our ships, which China attempts to block every time we rotate troops and bring supplies to a ship that ran aground on Ayungin shoal.

– Colonel Restituto Padilla

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

New Korean-built light fighter aircraft could reach Scarborough Shoal in just minutes, and maritime patrol aircraft or drones could eventually provide persistent coverage of Chinese movements in the area, a return to Subic Bay, this time led by the Philippine air force, would seem to be a prudent defensive response.

– Patrick Cronin

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The larger geo-strategic context is more important than Second Thomas Shoal.

– Zhang Baohui

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Ultimately no matter how much sand China piles on top of a submerged reef or shoal ... it is not enhancing its territorial claim. You can't build sovereignty, he (Kerry) will leave his Chinese interlocutors in absolutely no doubt that the United States remains committed to maintaining freedom of navigation and to exercise our legitimate rights as pertaining to over flight and movement on the high seas.

– The State Department official

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

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