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СпутникиРНSpaceXРоскосмосNASAManila and Beijing continue to trade accusations about a series of clashes at two disputed features in the South China Sea last week.
The Philippines on Saturday wound up a series of joint maritime exercises with the United States and Japan in the South China Sea, against a backdrop of tension between Philippine and Chinese vessels at two disputed features.
The 17th Multilateral Maritime Cooperative Activity, which began on July 21, brought together warships, coast guard vessels, and surveillance and fighter aircraft, the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) said in a statement yesterday.
“Throughout the five-day activity, participating forces carried out a series of advanced maritime interoperability exercises,” the AFP said. These included communication exercises, replenishment at sea operations, and division tactics.
The exercises underscored “the enduring partnership among the partner nations in promoting peace, stability, and security in the Indo-Pacific region,” it stated. They also reflected the AFP’s “continuing commitment in ensuring freedom of navigation and overflight while deterring illegal, coercive, aggressive, and deceptive activities” in the South China Sea. The Philippine military did not disclose the exact location of the exercises.
The drills took place at a time of resurgent tensions in the contested seaway, which have coincided with the 10th anniversary of the South China Sea arbitral ruling, handed down by a special tribunal in The Hague, that found China’s expansive “nine-dash line” claim in the South China Sea had no basis under international law. China does not recognize the ruling, saying that it is “null and void.”
On Friday, the Philippine accused the China Coast Guard (CCG) of firing water cannon at its vessels near Scarborough Shoal for the second day. The Philippine Coast Guard said that the incident took place while the PCG and Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources were delivering fuel and provisions to Filipino fishing boats, part of a national initiative “to ensure the safety and security of Filipino fisherfolk exercising their legitimate rights in their traditional fishing ground.”
The water cannons hit both PCG and BFAR vessels with the high-pressure water streams while a separate CCG vessel came within about 7 meters of a BFAR boat, creating “a serious risk of collision.” The PCG also released several videos that it claims showed the water cannon incidents.
“The PCG strongly condemns the dangerous and unprofessional actions of the China Coast Guard,” PCG spokesperson Jay Tarriela said in the statement. Scarborough Shoal, which lies within the Philippines’ 200-nautical-mile Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), was a traditional fishing ground of Filipinos, “whose rights cannot be lawfully impeded by any foreign power,” he said. The National Task Force for the West Philippine Sea described the actions as “unlawful and dangerous.”
The CCG in turn accused the Philippines of organizing several government and PCG vessels, along with a large number of fishing vessels, to “illegally gather” around the shoal, which China refers to as Huangyan Dao. It said that it had taken legal measures to warn, block, and deploy water cannon after the official vessels from the Philippines ignored those measures from the CCG and “insisted on intruding.”
A similar confrontation took place at Scarborough Shoal on Thursday, when the PCG accused its Chinese counterpart of undertaking “illegal, coercive, and aggressive actions,” including the use of water cannons, to disrupt a supply mission. The CCG countered by urging the Philippines to “immediately cease its infringing and provocative actions,” and reasserting China’s sovereignty over the disputed shoal.
Lying around 200 kilometers to the west of the Philippines’ Luzon island, and 874 kilometers from China’s Hainan Island, Scarborough Shoal has been a persistent flashpoint in the maritime disputes between the Philippines and China. The shoal has been under Chinese control since a stand-off between the two sides in 2012, and the CCG regularly stations vessels around the triangular atoll. In recent years, they have made repeated attempts to restrict Filipino fishermen from accessing the rich fishing grounds inside the atoll’s central lagoon.
The two incidents at Scarborough Shoal followed an incident on July 20 at Second Thomas Shoal in the Spratly Islands, some 650 kilometers away, in which Philippine and Chinese personnel exchanged direct physical blows. The Philippines said that one of its personnel sustained a head injury after being struck with a baton by CCG personnel who had deployed in a boat close to the BRP Sierra Madre, the grounded warship that serves as Manila’s outpost on the shoal.
As in the above cases, China accused the Philippines of transgressing into its waters, attempting to ram the Chinese patrol boat, and of spreading “false propaganda” about the incident. The incident came as ASEAN’s foreign ministers concluded a week of regional meetings in Manila, during which U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio described China’s actions in the South China Sea as “disturbing” and reaffirmed Washington’s support for its long-time security ally. Other Philippine partners expressed similar concerns about the incident.
The confrontation at Second Thomas Shoal also revived disagreements about a “provisional” understanding that Beijing and Manila reached after in June 2024, after a Filipino sailor lost a finger during a physical melee at the shoal. The agreement sought to reduce misunderstandings during missions intended to resupply the unit of marines stationed aboard the BRP Sierra Madre, and until this week, had largely succeeded in reducing tensions between the two sides.
Beijing accused Manila of transgressing the terms of the agreement, the terms of which were never published, during the July 20 incident. The Philippine Department of Foreign Affairs said on Thursday that the arrangement neither recognizes any foreign jurisdiction nor requires the Philippines to ask China for permission to carry out resupply missions. Nor does it concede the Philippines’ “sovereignty, sovereign rights, and jurisdiction,” a position that it said was “vindicated” by the 2016 arbitral ruling.
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