Philippines Condemns & Removes Chinese "Floating Barrier" At Scarborough Shoal

While the Philippines said that the shoal is Philippine territory, China said in its own statement that it has always been Chinese territory.

MANILA - The Philippine Coast Guard has condemned China's Coast Guard for installing a 300-meter (984-foot) floating barrier in the Scarborough Shoal which sits about 120 miles west of the Philippine Island of Luzon, heating up tensions in the ongoing dispute known as the "Scarborough Shoal standoff" which began on April 8th, 2012 when the Philippine Na…