‘Play PH songs near West Philippine Sea to affirm PH claim’

Let Filipino songs play all night on the country’s only radio station near areas being occupied by another nation in the contested West Philippine Sea (WPS).  This way, that unnamed “occupant” would know they are in Philippine territory.

So suggested neophyte Sen. Francis Tolentino during a Senate budget hearing on Thursday, referring to China whom he described as “a distant country claiming territories within the nine-dash line.”

The nine-dash line refers to China’s massive claims on most of the West Philippine Sea, which had been rejected by the Permanent Court of Arbitration.

Tolentino said the government’s only radio station in Palawan could become the Philippines’ version of the “Voice of America.”