Metrics aside, there can be no reason for a vessel to move so close to another and send out jets of water except to push the other back.
Mention the phrase “water cannon” to a toddler and instantly, images of water blasters or water guns come into the picture with innocent play involving an aquatic arena. Such sense of naiveté, however, cannot be said of the water cannons used by a Chinese Coast Guard vessel on August 5 against a chartered supply boat of the Armed Forces of the Philippines.
Senate Deputy Minority Leader Risa Hontiveros has referred to these bullying as “repeated provocations” that “are in complete violation of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea and the 2016 Arbitral Award.” Our legislators must be on the verge of xenophobia as they collectively passed Senate Resolution 718 “strongly condemning” China’s moves in the West Philippine Sea, as it exhorted the Marcos administration to take actions as high up the United Nations, should the provocation persist.
This bullying sphere almost always involves the stronger against the weaker or the bigger versus the smaller. The stronger intimidates; the weaker gets intimidated. The bigger becomes the victor; the smaller becomes the victim.
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