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The Chinese coastguard has again lashed out at its Philippine counterpart, accusing it misleading the international community over a confrontation in the South China Sea on Wednesday.
“Despite repeated dissuasion and warnings from China, the Philippines insisted on sending four coastguard ships, six official ships, and several unidentified ships to intrude into China’s Huangyan Island territorial waters and nearby waters such as Xianbin Reef in the Nansha Islands,” China Coast Guard spokesman Liu Dejun said on Thursday, using the Chinese terms for Scarborough Shoal, Sabina Shoal and the Spratly Islands.
“During this period, Philippine ships approached and deliberately collided with Chinese coastguard ships in the waters of Huangyan Island and Xianbin Reef many times, causing collisions, and the responsibility lies entirely with the Philippines.”
The Philippines also claims the maritime features, referring to them as Panatag and Escoda shoals.
The accusations were on top of a statement on Wednesday that accused four Philippine vessels of trying to “intrude” into Scarborough Shoal and of coming “dangerously close to the normal law enforcement and inspection vessels of China’s coastguard”.
The Chinese ships “took necessary control measures against Philippine ships” and their operations were “professional, standardised, legitimate and legal”, the Chinese maritime authority said.
The Philippine Coast Guard had accused Chinese coastguard vessels and two navy ships of “aggressive actions” against its ships, which it said were conducting a “routine maritime patrol” to support Filipino fishermen in the waters.


But, the Chinese agency said, “the Philippines reversed right and wrong, blamed others, and spread false information in an attempt to mislead international cognition”.
It urged the Philippines to “immediately stop” its infringements and provocations.
“The China Coast Guard is on full alert and ready to continue to carry out rights protection and law enforcement activities in the waters under China’s jurisdiction in accordance with the law, resolutely safeguard national territorial sovereignty and maritime rights and interests, and maintain regional maritime security and order.”


The confrontation is one of a series between the two countries in the South China Sea over territorial disputes and maritime rights.
Earlier last month, the Philippines passed the Archipelagic Sea Lanes Act and the Maritime Zones Act, which assert and reinforce the Philippines’ maritime boundaries, prompting protests from China as a breach of its own territory and maritime rights.
Within days, Beijing published a set of geographic coordinates for 16 base points around the feature, marking it as part of national territory and sea territories – the first time it has done so for areas of the sea claimed by Manila.


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Philippine agency is misleading the international community over incidents at Sabina and Scarborough shoals, China Coast Guard says


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Chinese coastguard takes aim again at Philippines over South China Sea shoal clashes

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Philippine agency is misleading the international community over incidents at Sabina and Scarborough shoals, China Coast Guard says