The Philippines & US Navy challenge China's Ships to turn around to leave the South China Sea area
The Philippine and US Coast Guard said Monday it had challenged a Chinese warship that entered the country’s territorial waters in the South China Sea last week but eventually sailed away.
The BRP Cabra and US ship were patrolling near Marie Louise Bank – about 147 nautical miles (87 km) off the coast of El Nido town in Palawan province – when it spotted the Chinese ship on July 13, the Coast Guard said.
The incident occurred after the fifth anniversary of a landmark international arbitral ruling that affirmed Manila’s rights to its territories in the South China Sea and declared Beijing’s claims over most of the contested waterway as baseless.
The “navy warship had a flag of the People’s Republic of China and was marked by Chinese characters,” Coast Guard spokesman Commodore Armand Balilo said in a statement.
Meanwhile, the United States, Japan, Australia, and other countries have backed the Philippines, urging China to follow international norms and stop its expansionist moves in the sea region.
The Chinese Embassy in Manila did not reply to the request for comment on Monday. Last week, Beijing’s foreign ministry dismissed the arbitration award as “nothing more than a piece of waste paper.”
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