"Philippines lodges protest over China ship blockade" Topic
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| Tango01 | 11 Mar 2014 12:40 p.m. PST |
"The Philippines has lodged a protest with China, accusing its coastguard of preventing two civilian vessels reaching sailors on a disputed shoal. The vessels were in the South China Sea on Sunday to deliver supplies to a military ship grounded since 1999, Philippine officials say. But Beijing's foreign ministry said China blocked the ships because Manila was attempting to build on the shoal. The incident is the latest in the rumbling South China Sea row…"
Full article here.
link Sad, but Philippines can't do much more than protest. Amicalement
Armand |
| M C MonkeyDew | 11 Mar 2014 1:35 p.m. PST |
"…to a military ship grounded since 1999…" That's a heck of a billet. I call chicanery on both parties. |
| Ron W DuBray | 11 Mar 2014 6:53 p.m. PST |
its a bit far away from China for them to have any say in the matter. |
| Tango01 | 12 Mar 2014 10:55 a.m. PST |
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| Mako11 | 12 Mar 2014 9:16 p.m. PST |
Might makes right, on the high seas, and/or in most other locations, for that matter. |
| Mako11 | 16 Mar 2014 2:35 a.m. PST |
Apparently, yesterday, or perhaps the day before, China demanded that the Filipinos remove their vessel from the reef. They said no, and airdropped supplies to their people, to get around the naval blockade. The Phillipine government did, for the first time, admit that their vessel was run onto the reef on purpose, in order to be able to support their territorial claims to that shoal. No doubt, tensions will continue in the region over this. |
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