The Philippines would file another diplomatic protest against China, its top envoy said on Wednesday, adding that it would continue to assert its rights in the South China Sea. “They can say what they want from the Chinese mainland; we continue to assert from our waters by right of international law what we won in The Hague,” Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro L. Locsin, Jr. tweeted. “We must not fail to protest,” he said. “Have we fired off a diplomatic protest? Do it now,” he ordered the Department of Foreign Affairs.

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