Retired Supreme Court Senior Associate Justice Antonio Carpio, the Senate leader and other lawmakers on Saturday said China's new coast guard regulations would defy the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Seas (Unclos) with its threats to arrest foreigners sailing into high seas of the South China Sea. "I'm calling on the Chinese government not to do this because it will be dangerous for all," Senate President Miguel Zubiri said in an interview with dwIZ radio.

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