At least 49 Chinese coast guard and Navy ships were detected in Philippine waters in June, the highest number in the Philippine government’s monthly monitoring so far this year. A Philippine Navy report on Tuesday said vessels of the China Coast Guard (CCG) and People’s Liberation Army-Navy (PLA-N) were seen sailing in and out of Panatag Shoal (Bajo de Masinloc), Ayungin Shoal and Pag-asa Island between June 1 and June 30. “These 49 ships were not there all the time, but they were in and out of the different features,” Rear Adm. Roy Vincent Trinidad, Navy spokesperson on the West Philippine Sea (WPS), told reporters in Camp Aguinaldo.

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