Chinese coast guard ships fire water cannons and block Philippine fisheries vessel in disputed sea

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******** coast guard ships ***** water cannons and block Philippine fisheries vessel in disputed sea

BEIJING (AP) — ******** coast guard ships fired water cannons and blocked and rammed a Philippine fisheries vessel Sunday in the disputed South China Sea, where hostilities between the ****** neighbors

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at sea and

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in recent weeks.

China and the Philippines blamed each other for the tense confrontations in the high seas off Sabina Shoal, which has become a new flashpoint, where both have deployed coast guard ships on suspicion that either one may take steps to seize the uninhabited atoll.

The ******** coast guard said that it took action against a Philippine vessel, which entered waters in the vicinity of Sabina and ignored warnings, leading to a minor collision.

******** coast guard spokesperson Gan Yu said that the Philippine ship sailed toward the ******** coast guard ship “unprofessionally” and “dangerously,” causing the two vessels to brush against each other. The Philippine vessel had

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to take pictures to “distort facts,” he said.

“The responsibility is totally on the Philippines’ side. We sternly warn that the Philippine side must immediately stop the infringement and provocation, otherwise it must bear all consequences,” Gan said without elaborating on the control measures that the ******** side employed.

A Philippine government task force said that a vessel of the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources, the BRP Datu Sanday, “encountered aggressive and dangerous maneuvers from eight People’s Republic of China maritime vessels” while cruising to Sabina, causing its engine to fail and hampering its effort to provide diesel, food and medical supplies to ********* fishermen.

The ******** coast guard ships, which were backed by a navy ship, “made close perilous maneuvers that resulted in ramming, blasted horns and deployed water cannons against the BFAR vessel,” endangering its crew, according to the Philippine task force, which oversees the territorial disputes.

“The Philippine government calls on the People’s Republic of China to halt these provocative actions that destabilize regional peace and security,” the task force said, adding that the Philippines would continue to assert its rights.

The ******* States expressed its support for the Philippines, its oldest treaty ally in Asia. U.S. Ambassador MaryKay Carlson said in a statement posted on X that China’s actions were “unsafe, unlawful and aggressive” and “disrupted a legal Philippine mission, endangering lives — the latest in multiple dangerous actions.”

China is rapidly expanding its military and has become

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in pursuing its territorial claims in the South China Sea, which Beijing claims virtually in its entirety. The tensions have led to more frequent confrontations,

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, though the longtime territorial disputes also involve other claimants, including

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, Taiwan,

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and Brunei.

The latest incident came days after ******** and Philippine coast guard ships collided near the disputed Sabina Shoal, which Beijing calls Xianbin and Manila refers to as Escoda.

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in Monday’s collision, but there were no reports of injuries.

Sabina Shoal ***** about 140 kilometers (85 miles) west of the Philippine province of Palawan, in the internationally recognized exclusive economic zone of the Philippines.

Sabina is near the Second Thomas Shoal, another flashpoint where China has hampered the resupply of Philippine forces aboard a long-grounded navy ship. Last month, China and the Philippines

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to prevent increasingly hostile confrontations at the Second Thomas Shoal.

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