ANALYSIS: US and the Philippines-China shoal dispute
By Amando Doronila in Manila/Philippine Daily Inquirer | Asia News Network – Fri, May 11, 2012
Manila (Philippine Daily Inquirer/ANN) - The standoff between the Philippines and China over Panatag Shoal, internationally called the Scarborough Shoal, finds the presence of 11 Chinese vessels (not 33, as earlier reported) in the disputed area claimed by both countries.
President Benigno Aquino III's spokesperson Edwin Lacierda corrected the earlier figures that denoted an escalation of Chinese presence after being told by Commodore Edmund Tan of the Philippine Coast Guard that he had verified the number of vessels to consist of seven fishing vessels, two FEC boats and two maritime vessels.
At the same time, Defence Secretary Voltaire Gazmin denied reports that Filipino fishermen were being barred by Chinese vessels from fishing in the lagoon ringed by rocks and reefs off the Zambales coast.
But Gazmin also said that although there were times when there were more Chinese fishermen and times when "we had more fishermen", Chinese maritime surveillance ships were always there. "We're no match for them," Gazmin said. At the present status of deployment of forces at the shoal, only the Coast Guard's BRP Edsa II and a Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources vessel are stationed there.
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