The Philippine military has condemned a Chinese coast guard ship's “excessive and offensive” use of a water cannon against a Filipino supply boat to block it from delivering new troops, food, water and fuel to a shoal in the disputed South China Sea.
The Chinese ship’s action was “in wanton disregard of the safety of the people on board” the Philippine navy-chartered boat and violated international law, including the 1982 U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea, said the Armed Forces of the Philippines, which did not say if any of its sailors were injured.
It called on the Chinese coast guard and China’s central military commission “to act with prudence and be responsible in their actions to prevent miscalculations and accidents that will endanger peoples’ lives.” China has long demanded that the Philippines withdraw its small contingent of naval forces and tow away the. The navy ship was deliberately marooned on the shoal in 1999 and now serves as a fragile symbol of Manila’s territorial claim to the atoll.
While the U.S. lays no claims to the South China Sea, it has often lashed out at China’s aggressive actions andin patrols and military exercises with regional allies to uphold freedom of navigation and overflight, which it says is in America’s national interest.
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