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China escalates stand-off at Scarborough Shoal with aircraft buzzing Pinoy coast guard and PLAN ramming Pinoy exploration ship!
Philippines says China boosts presence in shoal
* Philippine foreign secy accuses Chinese ship of harassing Philippine-registered vessel
MANILA: The Philippines alleged on Saturday that China had again increased its presence around a disputed shoal and had harassed a Filipino civilian vessel, after the week-old standoff appeared to have eased.
Hours after reporting that all but one Chinese vessel had left the waters off Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea by Friday, Philippine Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario said one of the larger vessels later returned. This boosted the Chinese presence to two vessels, while a Chinese aircraft also arrived and made fly-bys above a Philippine coast guard vessel stationed in the area, he said.
A Chinese ship also harassed a Philippine-registered vessel conducting a scientific survey, del Rosario said without elaborating. “It appears that there is an element that is lacking in our negotiations,” he said in a written statement to reporters after receiving an updated report from the coast guard. The crisis started Sunday when the Philippines found eight Chinese fishing boats in the area, which the Philippines claims as its territory.
A Philippine navy warship was preparing to arrest the Chinese fishermen for poaching but China despatched three civilian vessels to take turns blocking the Philippine ship. Talks between del Rosario and the Chinese ambassador to Manila, Ma Keqing, to resolve the dispute went nowhere according to the Philippine side. However, earlier Saturday del Rosario said all eight fishing vessels as well as two of the three larger Chinese vessels blockading the Philippine forces had fled the area, leaving one vessel left for each of the two claimants.
The Filipino official did not specify whether the alleged fresh Chinese reinforcements had arrived Friday or Saturday. Del Rosario said the civilian Filipino vessel that was harassed was conducting an “archaeological survey” and that the people on board included nine French citizens. However he did not specify where the alleged harassment occurred.
We are literally begging the Philippines to open fire on our aircraft buzzing overhead or our coast guard ramming, so we can launch our cruise missiles from air, surface and submarine to destroy Manila.
Meanwhile, USA is pretending it can defend the Philippines by doing military exercises with them
US, Philippines hold war games amid China tensions
Philippines says China boosts presence in shoal
* Philippine foreign secy accuses Chinese ship of harassing Philippine-registered vessel
MANILA: The Philippines alleged on Saturday that China had again increased its presence around a disputed shoal and had harassed a Filipino civilian vessel, after the week-old standoff appeared to have eased.
Hours after reporting that all but one Chinese vessel had left the waters off Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea by Friday, Philippine Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario said one of the larger vessels later returned. This boosted the Chinese presence to two vessels, while a Chinese aircraft also arrived and made fly-bys above a Philippine coast guard vessel stationed in the area, he said.
A Chinese ship also harassed a Philippine-registered vessel conducting a scientific survey, del Rosario said without elaborating. “It appears that there is an element that is lacking in our negotiations,” he said in a written statement to reporters after receiving an updated report from the coast guard. The crisis started Sunday when the Philippines found eight Chinese fishing boats in the area, which the Philippines claims as its territory.
A Philippine navy warship was preparing to arrest the Chinese fishermen for poaching but China despatched three civilian vessels to take turns blocking the Philippine ship. Talks between del Rosario and the Chinese ambassador to Manila, Ma Keqing, to resolve the dispute went nowhere according to the Philippine side. However, earlier Saturday del Rosario said all eight fishing vessels as well as two of the three larger Chinese vessels blockading the Philippine forces had fled the area, leaving one vessel left for each of the two claimants.
The Filipino official did not specify whether the alleged fresh Chinese reinforcements had arrived Friday or Saturday. Del Rosario said the civilian Filipino vessel that was harassed was conducting an “archaeological survey” and that the people on board included nine French citizens. However he did not specify where the alleged harassment occurred.
We are literally begging the Philippines to open fire on our aircraft buzzing overhead or our coast guard ramming, so we can launch our cruise missiles from air, surface and submarine to destroy Manila.
Meanwhile, USA is pretending it can defend the Philippines by doing military exercises with them
US, Philippines hold war games amid China tensions
