{"id":145584,"date":"2023-08-11T13:15:43","date_gmt":"2023-08-11T17:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=145584"},"modified":"2023-08-09T19:30:27","modified_gmt":"2023-08-09T23:30:27","slug":"china-not-pleased-with-the-us-providing-its-input-regarding-the-south-china-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=145584","title":{"rendered":"China not pleased with the US providing its input regarding the South China Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Philippines ran The Sierra Madre aground on one of the disputed areas in the South China Sea. They kept a contingent of soldiers on the ship to help maintain the Philippine’s claims to this area. Recently, while the Filipinos were replenishing the servicemembers on this ship, the Chinese Coast Guard fired water cannons at them. This incident, as well as others, has the Philippines joining with other countries in the area debating with the Chinese over control over locations in the South China Sea. The U.S. has a treaty obligation with the Philippines that could result in the U.S. being dragged into hot conflict.<\/p>\n

From The Guardian:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

An international row is growing between the Philippines, the US and China over a rusting ship that has been turned into a crucial military outpost in the South China Sea.<\/p>\n

The dilapidated second world war-era ship was deliberately run aground on a tiny reef in the South China Sea in 1999 by the Philippines, and a small contingent of troops continue to stay on board to stake the country’s claim in the highly disputed water.<\/p>\n

The strategically important South China Sea is subject to competing territorial claims by China and south-east Asian countries, and is considered a potential flashpoint.<\/p>\n

Tensions have intensified under the current Philippine president, Ferdinand Marcos Jr, with the country increasingly accusing China of aggression and pursuing closer ties with the US, with which it has a mutual defence treaty.<\/p>\n

On Saturday, China provoked condemnation from the Philippines, the US, the EU, France, Japan and Australia after its coastguard directed water cannon at a Philippine coastguard vessel. The Philippines was trying to deliver food, water, fuel and other supplies to its troops stationed in the grounded ship, the BRP Sierra Madre, on Second Thomas Shoal in the Spratly Islands.<\/p>\n

China has since repeated its demands for the rusting ship to be removed, while China’s embassy in Manila has accused Washington of “inciting and supporting the Philippines attempts to overhaul and reinforce” BRP Sierra Madre, and of rallying its allies “to persistently sensationalise the South China Sea issue”.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Guardian provides the balance of the story here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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