{"id":232166,"date":"2019-09-24T01:45:14","date_gmt":"2019-09-24T05:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=232166"},"modified":"2019-09-24T01:45:14","modified_gmt":"2019-09-24T05:45:14","slug":"china-blocking-resupply-mission-in-ayungin-shoal-objectionable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/09\/24\/china-blocking-resupply-mission-in-ayungin-shoal-objectionable\/","title":{"rendered":"China blocking resupply mission in Ayungin Shoal \u2018objectionable\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_207213\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-207213\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/45707062_758497277818660_2350937726280269824_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-207213\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/45707062_758497277818660_2350937726280269824_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/45707062_758497277818660_2350937726280269824_n.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/45707062_758497277818660_2350937726280269824_n-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/45707062_758497277818660_2350937726280269824_n-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/45707062_758497277818660_2350937726280269824_n-20x13.jpg 20w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-207213\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo questioned why China would block a resupply mission. (File <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/PresSpokespersonPH\/photos\/a.397841807217544\/758497261151995\/?type=3&amp;\">Photo:<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/PresSpokespersonPH\/\">Office of the Presidential Spokesperson\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; Malaca\u00f1ang on Monday said a Chinese Coast Guard ship having blocked the path of three Philippine civilian vessels on a resupply mission to BRP Sierra Madre in Ayungin Shoal in the West Philippine Sea is \u201cobjectionable\u201d and the Department of Foreign Affairs is already preparing to file a protest against this action.<\/p>\n<p>A document from the Department of National Defense (DND) showed the incident happened last May 14, almost a month before the June 9 Recto Bank (Reed Bank) incident where a Chinese vessel rammed into and sank a Filipino fishing boat and abandoned the fishermen at sea.<\/p>\n<p>Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo questioned why China would block a resupply mission.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSiyempre objectionable\u00a0<em>iyon, kung\u2026Magdadala lang pala ng pagkain, bakit mo naman iba-block<\/em>\u00a0(Of course that\u2019s objectionable but if they\u2019re only bringing food, why would you block)?\u201d Panelo said in a Palace briefing.<\/p>\n<p>Panelo, however, said there is a need to find out China\u2019s reason for blocking the resupply mission.<\/p>\n<p>The Palace official said Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro \u201cTeddyboy\u201d Locsin Jr. is already preparing a protest against China\u2019s action.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will leave that to the Secretary of Foreign Affairs, turf\u00a0<em>niya na iyon<\/em>\u00a0(that\u2019s his turf),\u201d Panelo said.<\/p>\n<p>To date, the Philippines has filed several diplomatic protests on the continued presence of Chinese vessels in Philippine waters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; Malaca\u00f1ang on Monday said a Chinese Coast Guard ship having blocked the path of three Philippine civilian vessels on &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":207213,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-azer-parrocha","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232166"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":232171,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232166\/revisions\/232171"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}