Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro L. Locsin, Jr. yesterday ordered the filing of a diplomatic protest again China over the presence of its ships near Second Thomas Shoal in the South China Sea. " I'm in Moscow. Do I have to fly home to file the diplomatic protest myself?" Mr. Locsin said in a social media post past midnight on Wednesday .

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