Vice President Maria Leonor Robredo, along with Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon and Senators Panfilo Lacson and Francis Pangilinan, has opposed a joint inquiry with China into the Recto (Reed) Bank incident in the South China (West Philippine) Sea, days after she held a dialogue with and provided aid to the fishers who were rammed by a Chinese vessel and were left afloat at sea.

In her weekly radio show on Sunday, Robredo said a multilateral investigation would be better to allow a third party to come up with unbiased results.