(5 Mar 2025)
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Manila, Philippines – 5 March 2025
1. Philippine Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro listening to reporter’s question
2. Official seal of (Tagalog) Department of National Defense
3. Wide of Teodoro
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Gilberto Teodoro, Philippine Defense Secretary:
"The greatest external threat actually is Chinese aggression, Chinese expansionism and the attempt by China to change the international law through the use of force or acquiescence in its ‘Grand Revival’ scheme, or its attempt to reshape the world order to one that it controls.”
5. Philippine flag pin on Teodoro’s collar
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Gilberto Teodoro, Philippine Defense Secretary:
"The Philippines will take a combination of measures singularly and with like-minded nations to counteract these activities of China. Naturally, we cannot discuss the specific moves. But then again, that is a very serious transgression of international law, which will demand a response."
7. Teodoro listening to reporter’s question
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Gilberto Teodoro, Philippine Defense Secretary:
“We have formulated contingency measures to respond or to have proper courses of action."
9. Wide of Teodoro
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Gilberto Teodoro, Philippine Defense Secretary:
"It is China’s own behavior that is the best motive factor for like-minded countries to band together because what it is doing is entirely unacceptable to a majority of the countries in the Indo-Pacific."
11. Teodoro standing up and shaking hands with reporter
STORYLINE:
The Philippine defense secretary said his country and its allies would take measures to counter any attempt by China to impose an air defense zone or restrict freedom of flights over the South China Sea.
Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro said China’s increasing aggression in the disputed waters was now considered the greatest threat to the national security of the Philippines.
Confrontations over the strategic waterway, which Beijing claims almost in its entirety, have spiked between Chinese and Philippine coast guard and navy forces in the last two years.
Recent brushes involving Chinese military aircraft firing warning flares or flying dangerously close to drive away U.S., Australian and Philippine patrol aircraft have set off fresh alarms.
Teodoro said defense officials have discussed the possibility of China imposing a so-called Air Defense Identification Zone or any exclusion zone to restrict foreign aircraft movement in what Beijing regards as its airspace over the South China Sea.
"That is a very serious transgression of international law, which will demand our response,” said Teodoro, a U.S.-educated lawyer and a licensed commercial pilot in the Philippines.
“The Philippines will take a combination of measures singularly and with like-minded nations to counteract” any such action by China, he said.
“We have formulated contingency measures to respond or to have proper courses of action.”
He did not elaborate.
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