A tense confrontation in the West Philippine Sea occurred on Sunday morning between a boat sent by the Philippine Navy and a vessel of the Chinese coast guard. | FMangosingINQ /PDI
“The blasts were not here, but we felt the jolt,” a Pag-asa resident told the Inquirer.
Wescom spokesperson Maj. Cherryl Tindog said the debris appeared similar to the Chinese rocket wreckage recently recovered in Busuanga, also in Palawan, early this month. Citing the Chinese Foreign Ministry, the embassy said it was the China Coast Guard ship that found “the wreckage of… a [space] rocket recently launched by China.”
Maritime expert Jay Batongbacal said earlier in a post on Facebook: “If China wanted its space junk back, it should have asked for its return and given the salvors compensation for the trouble they went through to pick it up. This is also provided for by international law on salvage, which is drawn from both customary international law and the salvage convention.
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