The BRP Andres Bonifacio (PS-17), one of three hand-me-down vessels from the US Coast Guard, conducted a “sovereignty patrol” on Sunday at the Kalayaan Island Group in the West Philippine Sea. | FMangosingINQ /PDI
The BRP Andres Bonifacio made a stop at Rizal Reef, one of the Philippines’ nine small military detachments in the KIG, located about 110 nautical miles west of Balabac, Palawan.
Sunday’s patrol came after the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Benfold “asserted navigational rights and freedoms” three days apart last week in the Paracels and Spratlys, both disputed archipelagos in the South China Sea. China has been claiming almost the entire South China Sea, rejecting a 2016 arbitration court ruling that invalidated its sweeping claims. The Philippines, Malaysia, Vietnam, Taiwan and Brunei have overlapping claims.
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