(UPDATES) PRESIDENT Ferdinand Marcos Jr. said Thursday the Philippines needs to do more than protest Beijing's "illegal actions" in the South China Sea.

Chinese coast guard personnel wielding knives, sticks and an axe surrounded and boarded three Filipino navy boats last week, video showed, foiling what Manila said was a resupply mission to troops manning a grounded warship, the BRP Sierra Madre, on Ayungin (Second Thomas) Shoal.

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