The Philippines accused the Chinese coast guard Friday of firing water cannon at a boat carrying provisions to Filipino troops on a remote outpost in the West Philippine Sea.
The Philippines accused the Chinese coast guard Friday of firing water cannon at a boat carrying provisions to Filipino troops on a remote outpost in the West Philippine Sea ."CCG vessel 5203 deployed water cannon against Philippine supply vessel M/L Kalayaan in an illegal though unsuccessful attempt to force the latter to alter course," a Philippine government task force said in a statement.
China's coast guard said two small Philippine transport ships and three coast guard ships entered the waters adjacent to the Second Thomas Shoal, part of the Spratly Islands, without the permission of the Chinese government.The shoal is in the Philippines' exclusive economic zone under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.China rejects that and says it has sovereignty over the Spratlys, known in China as the Nansha Islands, and its adjacent waters.
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