This file photo, released by the Department of Foreign Affairs of the Philippines on April 11, 2012, shows Chinese surveillance ships off Scarborough Shoal. The Philippines on Friday said it "strongly... more 

This file photo, released by the Department of Foreign Affairs of the Philippines on April 11, 2012, shows Chinese surveillance ships off Scarborough Shoal. The Philippines on Friday said it "strongly objects" to China's deployment of a new patrol vessel in the South China Sea, where the two countries have a seething maritime territorial dispute less