Philippines accuses Chinese Coast Guard of boarding boats – DW – 06/19/2024
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Chinese Coast Guard rammed and boarded Philippine navy boats in latest South China Sea confrontation, Manila says. Beijing defends its actions.

Chinese Coast Guard rammed and boarded Philippine naval boats and confiscated their weapons in the South China Sea, injuring a Filipino soldier, the Philippine military said on Wednesday.

“The Chinese Coast Guard personnel illegally embarked on our RHIBS (rigid-hulled inflatable boats),” Rear Admiral Alfonso Torres told reporters, adding that Chinese boarders had some guns.

The incident is the latest in a series of escalating confrontations between Chinese and Philippine vessels in recent months off the disputed Second Thomas Shoal, where a tiny Philippine garrison is stationed on an old warship BRP Sierra Madre that was deliberately beached.

  • xep
    16•5 months ago

    According to China’s Coast Guard, Manila’s ship had deliberately and dangerously approached a Chinese vessel in an unprofessional manner, forcing it to take control measures, including “boarding inspections and forced evictions.”

    Oh no! An inflatable boat has approached our large, well equipped vessel! Quickly, we must forcefully board this boat even though it is “dangerous and deliberate,” and chop off their fingers! Then we will puncture their boat with our swords, that will show them!