Nineteen Chinese ships were spot­ted in the West Phil­ip­pine Sea (WPS), par­tic­u­larly in Bajo de Masin­loc (Scar­bor­ough Shoal), for the whole of Novem­ber, the Armed Forces of the Phil­ip­pines (AFP) said. “Our mon­it­or­ing of 19 war­ships of the PLA Navy in the mari­time zones of the Phil­ip­pines for the month of Novem­ber is actu­ally the same com­pared to the pre­vi­ous months,” RAdm. Roy Vin­cent Trin­idad, AFP spokes­man for the WPS, said in a press brief­ing.

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