SEN. Jinggoy Estrada said on Thursday that the "new model" to ease tensions in the West Philippine Sea (WPS) was nothing but a disinformation campaign by the Chinese government.

"Let us reassert that Ayungin Shoal is an integral part of our exclusive economic zone, a fact that has been unequivocally upheld by the Permanent Court of Arbitration in the Hague in 2016," Estrada said in a statement.

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