The Chinese Coast Guard said on Tuesday that it fired water cannons at Filipino ships near the Scarborough Shoal, a feature China is attempting to seize by force in defiance of international law.
The Philippine government confirmed the incident and reported at least one injury during the encounter.
The Scarborough Shoal, called Huangyan Island by China and Panatag Shoal by the Philippines, lies within a vast region of the South China Sea claimed by Beijing. The Permanent Court of Arbitration at the Hague rejected China’s claims in 2016, but the Communist tyranny ignored the ruling and set about to take control of the shoal with increasingly…
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