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Chinese security vessel orders Philippine plane carrying media to ‘leave’

TSA Desk by TSA Desk
March 10, 2023
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March 10, 2023 10:24 pm | Updated 10:24 pm IST – Over the Spratly Islands, Philippines

An aerial view taken on March 9, 2023 shows a cargo vessel docked at Thitu Island in the South China Sea. - As a Philippine Coast Guard plane carrying journalists flew over the Spratly Islands in the hotly disputed South China Sea, a Chinese voice issued a stern command over the radio: “Leave immediately.”

An aerial view taken on March 9, 2023 shows a cargo vessel docked at Thitu Island in the South China Sea. – As a Philippine Coast Guard plane carrying journalists flew over the Spratly Islands in the hotly disputed South China Sea, a Chinese voice issued a stern command over the radio: “Leave immediately.”
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As a Philippine Coast Guard plane carrying journalists flew over the Spratly Islands in the hotly disputed South China Sea, a Chinese voice issued a stern command over the radio: “Leave immediately.”

The order came from a radio operator on a Chinese coastguard vessel 3,500 feet (1,000 metres) below — one of dozens of ships seen prowling the waters.

AFP was one of several media outlets given the rare opportunity on Thursday to fly over some of the dozens of tiny islands and reefs where the Philippines, China and several other nations have competing claims.

Beijing claims sovereignty over almost the entire South China Sea, including the Spratlys, ignoring an international ruling that its claims have no legal basis.

In the past decade, it has ripped up thousands of hectares of reef in the archipelago to create militarised islands with runways, ports and radar systems.

To assert its claims, hundreds of Chinese coastguard and other vessels patrol the waters, swarming reefs, harassing and attacking fishing and other boats.

They also try to expel non-Chinese planes from the airspace overhead.

“You have entered (the water around) a Chinese reef and constituted a security threat. To avoid misunderstanding, leave immediately,” the Chinese radio operator said, in one of seven messages issued in Chinese and English as the coastguard plane flew over a Philippine-occupied island and shoal.

The Philippine pilot responded that they were flying within his country’s territory.

During the four-hour flight in the Cessna Caravan, Philippine Coast Guard personnel identified nearly 20 Chinese vessels, including what they described as “maritime militia” boats, in waters around some of the nine islands and reefs occupied by the Philippines.

Seventeen boats reported by the Philippine Coast Guard to be Chinese maritime militia were also spotted near Sabina Shoal, which is claimed by Manila.

Fifteen Chinese boats were seen in the vicinity of Thitu, the largest Philippine-occupied island, which lies about 430 kilometres (267 miles) from the major Philippine island of Palawan and more than 900 kilometres from China’s nearest major landmass of Hainan island.

The Philippine Coast Guard said that was down from 42 the previous week.

A Chinese navy ship was 15 kilometres from the island, while a coastguard vessel was half that distance away, according to estimates provided by the Philippine Coast Guard.

At Second Thomas Shoal, where Philippine marines are stationed in a derelict navy ship grounded to assert Manila’s territorial claim in the waters, a Chinese coastguard vessel was about 11 kilometres away, the Philippine authorities said.

Last month, a Chinese coastguard boat was nearly 20 kilometres from the shoal when it allegedly used a military-grade laser light against a Philippine patrol boat.

That was the latest major maritime incident between the Philippines and China.

It sparked a fresh diplomatic row and prompted Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos to take the unusual step of confronting the Chinese ambassador to Manila.

China’s foreign ministry insisted Friday the country had sovereignty over the Spratlys and surrounding waters, making it “reasonable and legal” for its ships to conduct “normal activities” there.

Marcos has insisted he will not let China trample on the Philippines’ maritime rights — in contrast to his predecessor Rodrigo Duterte who was reluctant to criticise Beijing.

The Philippines’ new strategy was to call out China’s “bullying behaviour and aggressive actions”, Commodore Jay Tarriela, the Philippine Coast Guard spokesman for the West Philippine Sea, told a forum in the capital Manila on Wednesday.

Manila refers to waters immediately to its west as the West Philippine Sea.

The coastguard is regularly publishing information, including photos and videos, about Chinese vessels in the waters around Philippine-occupied features.

This helps inform the Philippine people and enables other countries to criticise China over its activities, Tarriela said.

And it forces Beijing “to come out in the open to explain or to completely lie”.


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