From Panay News (Jun 4, 2024): PH ship personnel pointed guns at Chinese coastguard? (By Adrian Stewart Co)
A China Coast Guard ship monitors a Philippine fisherman aboard his wooden boat during the distribution of fuel and food to fishers by the civilian-led mission Atin Ito (This Is Ours) Coalition, in the disputed South China Sea on May 16, 2024. FILE PHOTO/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
MANILA – Personnel on a Philippine ship has allegedly pointed guns at members of China’s Coast Guard in disputed waters of the South China Sea last month.
According to a report by CCTV, at least two personnel on the Philippine vessel near the shoal were carrying guns on deck and pointed it in the direction of China’s Coast Guard.
The CCTV report was accompanied by a 29-second video where a masked man momentarily holding up a blurred black object that resembled a rifle towards the Chinese Coast Guard.
The alleged incident occurred during a Philippine mission to supply troops stationed aboard the BRP Sierra Madre, which was run aground on the Ayungin Shoal, also known as the Second Thomas Shoal, in 1999.
Confrontations between the Philippines and China in the South China Sea have grown more tense and frequent during the past year, including China’s Coast Guard using water cannons and accusations by Manila that it had rammed Philippine vessels.
China claims almost the entire South China Sea, a conduit for more than $3 trillion in annual ship commerce. Its territorial claims overlap with those of the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia and Brunei.
Scarborough Shoal, also known as Bajo de Masinloc, is located 124 nautical miles west of Zambales and within the country’s 200-nautical mile exclusive economic zone.
In 2016, an international arbitration tribunal in The Hague ruled that China’s claims over the South China Sea have no legal basis, a decision that Beijing does not recognize./
https://www.panaynews.net/ph-ship-personnel-pointed-guns-at-chinese-coastguard/
MANILA – Personnel on a Philippine ship has allegedly pointed guns at members of China’s Coast Guard in disputed waters of the South China Sea last month.
According to a report by CCTV, at least two personnel on the Philippine vessel near the shoal were carrying guns on deck and pointed it in the direction of China’s Coast Guard.
The CCTV report was accompanied by a 29-second video where a masked man momentarily holding up a blurred black object that resembled a rifle towards the Chinese Coast Guard.
The alleged incident occurred during a Philippine mission to supply troops stationed aboard the BRP Sierra Madre, which was run aground on the Ayungin Shoal, also known as the Second Thomas Shoal, in 1999.
Confrontations between the Philippines and China in the South China Sea have grown more tense and frequent during the past year, including China’s Coast Guard using water cannons and accusations by Manila that it had rammed Philippine vessels.
China claims almost the entire South China Sea, a conduit for more than $3 trillion in annual ship commerce. Its territorial claims overlap with those of the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia and Brunei.
Scarborough Shoal, also known as Bajo de Masinloc, is located 124 nautical miles west of Zambales and within the country’s 200-nautical mile exclusive economic zone.
In 2016, an international arbitration tribunal in The Hague ruled that China’s claims over the South China Sea have no legal basis, a decision that Beijing does not recognize./
https://www.panaynews.net/ph-ship-personnel-pointed-guns-at-chinese-coastguard/
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