Senator Padilla: Philippines doesn't need US help in West Philippine Sea

Senator Robin Padilla questions the necessity of the US Navy's air presence during a recent resupply mission to the BRP Sierra Madre in the Ayungin Shoal. He claims - falsely - that there hadn’t been any escalation of tensions with China in the West Philippine Sea in ’the past 6 years’ under the Duterte administration, and it was merely a ‘cat-and-mouse’ situation.

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