The United States, Australia and Japan — three members of the Quad — immediately called out China for blocking and firing water cannon on a Philippine Coast Guard resupply mission off the Ayungin Shoal in West Philippine Sea.
THE United States, Australia and Japan — three members of the Quad — immediately called out China for blocking and firing water cannon on a Philippine Coast Guard resupply mission off the Ayungin Shoal in West Philippine Sea.
In May, the Philippines and the US agreed that an armed attack on Coast Guards on either side can be a trigger to invoke the US-Philippines Mutual Defense Treaty. HK Yu PSM, Australia’s ambassador to Manila, likewise expressed support to Manila in the face of what she called “dangerous and destabilizing” actions against the Philippines.
“As made clear by an international tribunal’s legally binding decision issued in July 2016, the PRC has no lawful claim to the maritime area around Second Thomas Shoal, which is located well within the Philippines’ exclusive economic zone. Senate President Juan Miguel Zubiri, one of two main authors of Senate Resolution 718, said the incident “is yet again a manifestation of its ‘might vs. right’ treatment of its peaceful neighbors.”
The resolution passed unanimously, but gave the Executive the flexibility to determine the exact action to take to push back against China, instead of just the simple call, as Senator Hontiveros earlier pitched, to elevate the matter to the UN General Assembly.
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