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TENSIONS FLARE OVER SOUTH CHINA SEA AFTER VESSELS COLLIDE
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Tensions over the South China Sea escalated Monday with China filing a
diplomatic complaint, the Philippines summoning Beijing’s ambassador, and
President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. ordering a probe a day after vessels from both
nations collided in the disputed waters.
A China Coast Guard vessel collided with a Philippines-contracted resupply boat
early morning Sunday. Two hours later, Manila said a Chinese maritime militia
boat ran into a Philippine coast guard ship during the same operation to deliver
supplies to an outpost in Second Thomas Shoal.
The “dangerous, illegal, and reckless maneuvers” by Chinese ships caused damage
to Philippine vessels “within our exclusive economic zone and is being taken
seriously at the highest level of government,” according to a statementBloomberg
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In a briefing after meeting with Marcos, Philippine Defense Secretary Gilberto
Teodoro said the incidents showed China’s “egregious violation of international
law and an escalation of their expansionist and aggressive action.”
“The country and the world must condemn the illegal and oppressive actions by
the Chinese government that violate any norm in the international law,” Teodoro
said.
Philippine Foreign Affairs spokesperson Teresita Daza said Manila has summoned
the Chinese envoy as the government makes “full use of diplomatic processes and
exercising all possible actions to us.”
A senior diplomat at the Chinese embassy in Manila met with a Philippine foreign
ministry official and expressed strong dissatisfaction and opposition to
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sea and “smearing” campaign, and tow away its stranded vessel as soon as
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The vessel to be resupplied — the BRP Sierra Madre — is a World War II-era ship
that was placed in Second Thomas Shoal by the Philippines in 1999 in response to
China’s occupation of nearby Mischief Reef four years prior. China, however, has
repeatedly urged the Philippines to remove the ship that it said was “illegally”
and “deliberately” ran aground at the shoal. Beijing also considers the shoal,
which it calls Ren’ai Jiao, as part of its territory.
A social media account linked to the People’s Liberation Army accused the
Philippines of misleading the world and providing a “window” for some forces to
intervene in the South China Sea, a veiled reference to the US.
Sunday’s encounter follows Philippine efforts to push back against a growing
number of incursions as Beijing asserts its claim to nearly all of a key
waterway that’s resource-rich and vital to global trade. China said the
collisions took place after the Philippine boats ignored warnings and approached
Chinese vessels in an unsafe manner.
“The Philippines will never be deterred by the provocative actions of China,”
National Security Council spokesperson Jonathan Malaya said, adding the
Southeast Asian nation will continue “to repair, maintain and sustain our troops
in BRP Sierra Madre.”
The US said the incident represented “dangerous and unlawful actions” on the
part of China as Japan also expressed support for the Philippines.
The ships “violated international law by intentionally interfering with the
Philippine vessels’ exercise of high seas freedom of navigation,” the US State
Department said in a statement on Sunday. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman
Mao Ning told a briefing on Monday that the US statement “is an attempt to
endorse the Philippines’ act of infringement and provocation.”
In addition to stepping up public exposure of such incidents, the Philippines
and its treaty ally, the US, have moved to expand defense cooperation, inflaming
tensions between the two superpowers. But with the US already preoccupied with
the war in Ukraine and now a second conflict between Israel and Hamas, observers
say China may see an opportunity to test America’s resolve in the Indo-Pacific
region.
Asked whether the collision would prompt the Philippines to invoke the country’s
longstanding treaty with the US that would require the latter to come to the
Southeast Asian nation’s defense, Manila’s foreign affairs official Daza said it
was “something that needs to be studied.”
“I don’t rule out that they are taking advantage of a distracted US,” said
Bonnie Glaser, Asia program chief at the German Marshall Fund of the US. “I
expect this will escalate in the coming days and weeks.”
Read more on South China Sea tensions
China’s Fresh Map Claims Over Taiwan, Disputed Sea Stir Protests
Marcos Bid to Challenge China on Disputed Shoal Pressures US
Why the South China Sea Fuels US-China Tensions: QuickTake
— With assistance by Philip Heijmans, Ditas B Lopez, Manolo Serapio Jr, Lucille
Liu, and Jing Li
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