[revealer]

There is a lot of differences btw “No China Attack” & “No arms attack”. The former mean China never attacked,  the latter mean China attacked but not using arms tt Philippines can invoke article 51 of UN CHARTER and retrospectively using arms to defend themselves.

https://www.shs-conferences.org/articles..._01022.pdf

Philippines maintained tt knifes,  looting and severed thumb happened.  They never admitted there was no attacks.

https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/2024/6/19/...china-1613