{"id":2206015,"date":"2024-03-25T19:23:10","date_gmt":"2024-03-25T23:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/china-threatens-more-clashes-after-damaging-philippine-vessel\/"},"modified":"2024-03-25T19:23:10","modified_gmt":"2024-03-25T23:23:10","slug":"china-threatens-more-clashes-after-damaging-philippine-vessel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/china-threatens-more-clashes-after-damaging-philippine-vessel\/","title":{"rendered":"China threatens more clashes after damaging Philippine vessel"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fchina-threatens-more-clashes-after-damaging-philippine-vessel%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2206015&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/china\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>China<\/a> has threatened to take more \u201cresolute\u201d steps to constrain the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/philippines\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Philippines<\/a>\u2019s access to a military outpost in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/South-China-Sea\">South China Sea<\/a> despite the U.S. ally\u2019s \u201cstrong protest\u201d of a maritime maneuver that damaged a Philippine vessel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChina\u2019s continued interference with the Philippines\u2019 routine and lawful activities in its own exclusive economic zone is unacceptable,\u201d the Philippines\u2019 Department of Foreign Affairs said Monday. \u201cIt infringes upon the Philippines\u2019 sovereign rights and jurisdiction. The Philippines demands that Chinese vessels leave the vicinity of Ayungin Shoal and the Philippine exclusive economic zone immediately.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Philippine officials issued that protest after a clash near a maritime military outpost at Ayungin, a disputed area of the South China Sea also known as the Second Thomas Shoal. A pair of Chinese Coast Guard vessels strafed a wooden Philippine vessel with water cannons on Saturday, as seen on dramatic footage released by the Philippines government, in order to thwart the delivery of supplies to a grounded cargo ship that Philippine forces are stationed in order to assert Manila\u2019s rights in the area.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is just an ordinary rotation and resupply or provision operation but look at how the Chinese are reacting,\u201d Philippine national security adviser Eduardo Ano <a href=\"https:\/\/news.abs-cbn.com\/news\/2024\/3\/24\/philippines-says-three-soldiers-hurt-by-china-water-cannon-1541\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>said<\/a> after the incident, per local press. \u201cWe will not be deterred. We will not be intimidated.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure><figcaption>In this screen grab from video provided by the Armed Forces of the Philippines, a Chinese coast guard ship uses water cannons and closely maneuvers beside a Philippine resupply vessel Unaizah May 4 as it approaches Second Thomas Shoal, locally called Ayungin shoal, at the disputed South China Sea on Saturday, March 23, 2024. (Armed Forces of the Philippines via AP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The incident occurred just days after Secretary of State Antony Blinken <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/foreign-policy\/2930531\/us-admiral-china-aggression-philippines\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>visited<\/a> the Philippines to finalize plans for President Joe Biden to host Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos, Jr., and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida. In Manila, Blinken emphasized that \u201cany armed attacks on Filipino armed forces, on public vessels, on aircraft\u201d could warrant American action under the terms of U.S.-Philippines mutual defense treaty.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a \u2018so what are you going to do about it\u201d move because there\u2019s been a lot of statements coming out of D.C. [about how] we\u2019re going to defend our treaty ally,\u201d the Foundation for Defense of Democracies\u2019 Cleo Paskal, an expert on Indo-Pacific security issues, told the Washington Examiner. \u201cWhat China will often do is do something that [says] \u2018you\u2019ll put out your press release, and we\u2019ll try to push the ground reality. And now let\u2019s see what you\u2019re actually going to do about it.\u2019 And then everybody\u2019s strategic communities watch very carefully.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>China intends to prevent the Philippines from converting the grounded vessel into \u201ca permanent outpost,\u201d as the Chinese Foreign Ministry acknowledged Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChina urges the Philippines to immediately stop infringing on China\u2019s sovereignty and rights and stop the provocations,\u201d Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Lin Jian said Monday. \u201cIf the Philippines does not change course, China will continue to take resolute steps to safeguard its territorial sovereignty and maritime rights and interests.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Blinken\u2019s team condemned China\u2019s action in a Saturday statement. \u201cThis incident marks only the latest in the PRC\u2019s repeated obstruction of Philippine vessels\u2019 exercise of high seas freedom of navigation and disruption of supply lines to this long-standing outpost,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/State-Department\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>State Department<\/a> spokesman Matthew Miller said, noting that an international tribunal ruled in 2016 that China has no legitimate claim to the area. \u201cThe PRC\u2019s actions are destabilizing to the region and show clear disregard for international law.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title><strong>CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Chinese officials insist that the 2016 ruling \u201cis illegal, null and void\u201d and warned the Philippines not to press the matter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe urge the Philippines to immediately stop hyping up the bilateral maritime disputes \u2026 and refrain from any move that may complicate the situation at sea,\u201d Lin said. \u201cThe Philippines needs to return to the right track of properly handling maritime disputes through negotiation and consultation as soon as possible and work with China to keep the South China Sea peaceful and stable.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China has threatened to take more \u201cresolute\u201d steps to constrain the Philippines\u2019s access to a military outpost in the South China Sea despite the U.S. ally\u2019s \u201cstrong protest\u201d of a maritime maneuver that damaged a Philippine vessel. \u201cChina\u2019s continued interference with the Philippines\u2019 routine and lawful activities in its own exclusive economic zone is unacceptable,\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2743,"featured_media":2206016,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/water-cannons-1024x577.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2206015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/water-cannons-1024x577.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2206015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2743"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2206015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2206015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2206016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2206015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2206015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2206015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}