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2021-11-19 China-Japan-Koreas

Chinese coast guard sprays Philippine boat with water cannon at disputed region

[FoxNews] Chinese coast guard ships blocked and sprayed a powerful stream of water at two Philippine boats carrying supplies to troops at a disputed South China Sea shoal, prompting Manila to order Beijing’s ships to back off and warn that its supply vessels are covered by a mutual defense treaty with the United States, Manila’s top diplomat said Thursday.

Philippine Foreign Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. said no one was hurt in the incident on Tuesday, but the two supply ships had to abort their mission to provide food to Filipino forces occupying Second Thomas Shoal, which lies off western Palawan province in the Philippines’ internationally recognized exclusive economic zone.

Locsin said in a tweet that the three Chinese coast guard ships’ actions were illegal and urged them "to take heed and back off."

It was the latest flare-up in the long-simmering territorial disputes in the strategic waterway, where China, the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunei and Taiwan have overlapping claims. China claims virtually the entire South China Sea and has transformed seven shoals into missile-protected island bases to cement its assertions, ratcheting up tensions and alarming rival claimants and Western governments led by the U.S.

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The #Philippines condemned “in strongest terms” the actions of three Chinese Coast Guard vessels which blocked and used water cannons on two Manila supply boats on their way to a Philippine-occupied atoll in the South #China Sea, its top diplomat says.https://t.co/L0lncmWRIo
— Al Arabiya English (@AlArabiya_Eng) November 18, 2021

Posted by Skidmark 2021-11-19 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11135 views ] Top
File under: Commies

#1 "prompting Manila to order Beijing’s ships to back off and warn that its supply vessels are covered by a mutual defense treaty with the United States, Manila’s top diplomat said Thursday."

I'm gonna call my father and tell on you!

Seriously, why do we have such worthless allies? You think they'd be able to handle their own disputes but they can't even deal with being sprayed with a firehose?

Posted by Punky Elmigum9411 2021-11-19 09:05|| 2021-11-19 09:05|| Front Page Top

#2 good people/corrupt society

hard to get much accomplished

Posted by 746 2021-11-19 12:53|| 2021-11-19 12:53|| Front Page Top

#3 wonder if it was bilge water.

Posted by Skidmark 2021-11-19 19:31|| 2021-11-19 19:31|| Front Page Top

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