China's naval and air forces conducted patrols around Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea on Thursday, following a series of tense encounters with other countries in the disputed waterway. Beijing claims almost the entire South China Sea, disregarding rival claims from several Southeast Asian nations and an international ruling that its assertion lacks legal basis.
Penang exco says TNB cable bridge in Bayan Lepas collapsed as it couldn’t sustain load; repair works to start end NovA China Coast Guard ship is seen past the Philippine Coast Guard ship in the disputed waters of the South China Sea on August 26, 2024. — AFP picBEIJING, Sept 28 — Chinese naval and air forces conducted patrols around a flashpoint reef in the South China Sea today, after a slew of tense encounters with countries including the Philippines in the disputed waterway in recent months.
Its claims include the waters around Scarborough Shoal — which Beijing seized from Manila in 2012 — where the Chinese military’s Southern Theatre Command said Saturday it had held air and sea patrols.The triangular chain of reefs and rocks is 240 kilometres west of the Philippines’ main island of Luzon and nearly 900 kilometres from the nearest major Chinese land mass of Hainan.
“Certain countries outside the region are stirring up trouble in the South China Sea, creating instability in the region,” the Southern Theatre Command said in a statement. Tensions between China and the Philippines have flared in the past few months during a series of confrontations in the waters also around the contested Second Thomas Shoal and Sabina Shoal.
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