The Philippine president says he has no expectation of going into war over regional quarrels however will arrange the naval force to flame if different nations separate assets from waters inside his nation's select monetary zone.
President Rodrigo Duterte told a news meeting late Friday that the Philippines couldn't battle all the more effective countries like the United States and China yet cautioned that "on the off chance that you get something there from the monetary zone, I will arrange the naval force to flame."
Duterte was alluding to the nation's 200-nautical mile selective financial zone, an extend of ocean where beach front states have been conceded elite rights to abuse normal assets under a 1982 U.N. arrangement.
Duterte as of late ceased all remote logical research missions in Benham Rise to pressure Philippine sovereign rights over the seaward district.