This is worse than what happened in Scarborough Shoal. "Supreme Court (SC) Senior Associate Justice Antonio Carpio on Saturday, August 19, slammed the presence of Chinese ships guarding Sandy Cay, a sandbar near Pag-asa Island (Thitu Island) in the West Philippine Sea (South China Sea). In a statement, Carpio described this as an "invasion of Philippine territory." He urged President Rodrigo Duterte and Foreign Secretary Alan Cayetano to "vigorously protest" this – even as Cayetano said it is no longer the strategy of the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) to file diplomatic protests against China.
