China fires water cannon at Philippine ships in South China Sea
Beijing (Reuters) – China Coast Guard fired the water ball on the Philippine ships near the controversial Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea on Tuesday, and accused Manila for a “illegal” attack and the collision of one of the ships.
The conflict comes a week after China approved its plans to transform into a national nature reserve, which is a movement that defense analysts will test the reaction of Manila’s reaction to the chain of 58 square meters (150 square meters) triangular reef and rocks.
The tension on Shoal has led to diplomatic rows in recent years, but it has not turned into an armed conflict on the field.
Both sides see Jets in events that include the use of water ball, and the unauthorized entry, the Chinese coast guard, the boat ramming and maneuvers by the Chinese Coast Guard, the Philippines are dangerous and Jets shadow the Philippine planes there.
China Coast Guard Spokesman Gan Yu, Tuesday’s encounter contained more than 10 Philippine ships and said, “China’s Scarborough Shoal’s regional waters accused of invasion in different ways.”
In particular, the Philippine Coast Guard Ship 3014, in a statement, “He ignored serious warnings on the Chinese side and deliberately hit a Chinese coast guard,” he said.
“China Coast Guard applied legally control measures against Philippine ships.”
GAN contained measures such as verbal warnings, route restrictions and spraying water ball.
The Filipin Maritime Council spokesman said China’s statement of the Coast Guard did not contain “real” and “Chinese disinformation and propaganda case”.
Analysts, Beijing, as a nature reserve, said that the disagreement on the Atol, known as the Huangyan Island in China and a flock of panats in the Philippines, means trying to get the moral high ground.
The dispute is part of a competition on sovereignty and fishing access in the South China Sea, a channel for trading of more than $ 3 trillion -dollars.
China, Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Vietnam’s special economic regions of the Southern Chinese Sea claims to overlap. Unresolved disputes have been added to the ownership of various islands and features for years.
In 2016, the Permanent Arbitration Court in The Hague decided that China’s comprehensive claims in the region were not supported by international law, a decision of Beijing.
(Reporting by Joe Cash; Additional reporting by Karen Lema in Manila; Lincoln Feast and Clarence Fernandez)
