 The Philippines Coast Guard said on November 11th it would maintain its regular supply missions to troops stationed on a disputed atoll in the South China Sea even though it expects more Chinese vessels to be sent to the area. The Philippines regularly sends supplies to a handful of troops living aboard an aging warship that was deliberately run aground on the 2nd Thomas Shoal in 1999 to assert Manila's sovereignty claims over the atoll. China claims almost the entire South China Sea, including the 2nd Thomas Shoal, and has deployed hundreds of vessels to patrol their Philippine Coast Guard spokesperson Jay Tariela told a news conference the Coast Guard will still carry out the resupply missions despite our limited number of vessels and despite the increasing number of Chinese vessels they are going to deploy. The Philippine Coast Guard convinced once again the China Coast Guard's unprovoked app of coercion and dangerous maneuvers against illegitimate, local and routine Philippine rotation and resupply mission to a union shoal. It has put the lives of our personnel at risk. They were successful in completing the mission despite attempts by five Chinese Coast Guard ventals and 28 Chinese maritime militia boats to recklessly harass, block, execute dangerous maneuvers in another attempt to illegally impede or obstruct a routine resupply and rotation mission to BRP Cheramato. Philippine Coast Guard goes still. You have the commitment of our Coast Guard that we're still going to carry out this dangerous mission despite of our limited number of vessels and despite of the increasing number of the Chinese vessels that they're going to deploy. We believe that we don't want the Chinese government to still continuously argue that they have the total control of a union shoal. With our capability to maintain our presence there with the ribs that we deployed and the ribs also of the armed force detour teams that they deployed, it showed that we still have the control of a union shoal.