The structures, including the military facilities that China built on the West Philippine Sea, may end up with the Philippines once the “day of reckoning” comes, a lawmaker said Monday, adding the continuous building of such structures in the area should not be a cause for alarm. Party-list Rep. Eric Yap of ACT-CIS, chairman of the House committee on appropriations, said the Chinese-built facilities could be transferred to the Philippines once the arbitral ruling was fully enforced. “As an example, if we have a plot of land that is the subject of a dispute and one of the claimants has a big force that surrounds our land and they built structures on the land where he have a claim, once we win in court the structures they built will revert to us because we own the land,” Yap said.

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