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Chinese coast guard ships are seen patrolling the disputed Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea. A Chinese coast guard personnel aboard an inflatable boat approaches a group of Filipino fishermen collecting shells on the shallow part of the shoal. Beijing seized control of Scarborough Shoal -- known in the Philippines as Bajo de Masinloc or Panatag Shoal -- from Manila in 2012 following a tense standoff. IMAGES
Chinese Foreign minister Wang Yi arrives in Manila ahead of a series of meetings with Philippine officials, including President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. and his counterpart, Foreign secretary Enrique Manalo. IMAGES
Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi and his delegation leave their hotel in the Solomon Islands ahead of meetings with the Honiara government. It comes as China puts forward a wide-ranging draft agreement and a five-year plan to ten nations in the Pacific, as part of Wang's tour of Pacific nations, which began Thursday. The South Pacific is increasingly a theatre for competition between China and the United States -- which has been the primary power in the region for the last century. IMAGES
Manila, May 7 (EFE/EPA).- Protesters gathered Friday to rally in front of the Chinese Consulate in Manila to denounce the continued intrusion of hundreds of Chinese fishing vessels escorted by Chinese patrol ships inside Philippine territory in the disputed South China sea. (Camera: FRANCIS MALASIG)SHOT LIST: PROTEST AGAINST THE INTRUSION OF CHINESE FISHING VESSELS INSIDE PHILIPPINE TERRITORY IN FRONT OF THE CHINESE CONSULATE IN MANILA, PHILIPPINES.