The Philippine Navy will request that a diplomatic protest be filed over a Chinese vessel’s alleged surveying activities at Recto Bank or Reed Bank, its chief Vice Admiral Giovanni Carlo Bacordo said Monday. Bacordo told an online new forum that the Chinese vessel had no clearance to survey the area, and that the Philippine Navy would be submitting a report on it to the Defense department. "The presence of two Chinese surveillance vessels in Recto Bank has come to my attention, but right now I think there's only one,” Bacordo said.

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