As the Philippine Coast Guard takes stock of last Monday’s run-in with the Chinese around Escoda (Sabina) Shoal that left two PCG vessels damaged, the Philippine Navy has increased its patrols in the West Philippine Sea and vowed no letup in supply missions to isolated outposts. “Rest assured that we have increased our presence through sea patrols and air surveillance flights all over the vast expanse of our nine features in the WPS,” Rear Admiral Roy Vincent Trinidad, Navy spokesman for the West Philippine Sea, said at a press briefing yesterday.

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