The leadership of the House of Representatives was urged Wednesday to pass a bill defining the country’s maritime areas and territory for China to take notice of such delineation.
This coincided with a report that a firm based in Florida, USA, conducting satellite imagery analysis had published a report this February showing what appeared to be movement and structural changes on Chinese-occupied Mischief Reef in the disputed West Philippine Sea.
The development, the report quoting an expert, said, could indicate further construction operations on the artificial island, known in the Philippines as Panganiban Reef, in the days to come.
The West Philippine Sea is the Philippines’ exclusive economic zone in the South China Sea, which China claims in near entirety.
Deputy Speaker Rufus Rodriguez said the bill’s enactment would strengthen the country’s position on the West Philippine Sea.

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