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It came as Manila said it had summoned a Chinese envoy over “aggressive actions” by the China Coast Guard and other vessels near a reef off the Southeast Asian country’s coast.
Jeffrey Facundo was giving evidence to a Senate inquiry into the June 17 incident at Second Thomas Shoal, where Manila has accused China’s coastguard of blocking resupply missions to a Philippine military outpost and boarding a Filipino vessel while wielding knives and an axe.
The Philippines has decided not to announce resupply missions to a disputed South China Sea shoal in advance as Manila pushes for talks with Beijing to defuse tensions following a recent stand-off in the waterway.
The proposal is among several suggestions by Antonio Carpio, a former Supreme Court judge, following one of the most controversial clashes between Manila and Beijing in the Second Thomas Shoal, where Philippine troops are stationed on a grounded vessel in the disputed waters.
Taiwan, Ukraine and Gaza get most of the attention these days. But the United States’ reputation as a reliable ally is nowhere more at stake than in the Philippines. And that reputation is on the verge of going down the drain.
A recent showdown between Chinese and Philippine forces in the South China Sea took place with Filipino sailors observing a new “operational design” in which they were told not to handle firearms while on a resupply mission, according to a top Philippine commander who lambasted the Chinese side for behaving “like pirates”.
A Philippine navy sailor suffered “serious injury” after what the country’s military called on Tuesday “intentional-high speed ramming” by the Chinese coastguard during a resupply mission in the South China Sea.
MANILA – Barely one month since China imposed new maritime regulations for the South China Sea and yet another major incident involving Philippine and Chinese maritime forces has erupted in the disputed waters.
BEIJING/MANILA — China and the Philippines traded accusations over a collision in the South China Sea on Monday (June 17), with Manila saying its armed forces would resist Beijing's actions in the disputed waters, the latest in an increasingly testy series of confrontations.