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Historical sleuthing by the former Supreme Court justice shows that the shoal, where China set up floating structures, is part of PH territory
Here we are again, back to 2012, when Chinese vessels stared down and outnumbered Philippine boats in weeks of a tense standoff at the Scarborough Shoal. It ended badly for us: We lost control of the shoal.
Since then, China’s massive maritime forces, the Coast Guard and PLA Navy, have called the shots in a feature within the Philippines Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ).
The shoal, also known as Bajo de Masinloc (BDM), is only 119 nautical miles or 220 kilometers from the coast of Zambales while it is a hugely distant 500 nautical miles or 920 kilometers from Hainan, the southernmost province of China.
