Beijing and Manila traded blame for two collisions Sunday between Chinese vessels and Philippine boats on a resupply mission to Filipino troops on a remote outpost in the disputed South China Sea.
The incidents happened near Second Thomas Shoal in the Spratly Islands, a hotly contested region where Beijing deploys ships to assert its claims over almost the entire sea.
In another incident, a Philippine coastguard vessel escorting the routine resupply mission was"bumped" by what the Philippine task force described as a"Chinese Maritime Militia vessel". A second resupply boat was able to reach the grounded BRP Sierra Madre and"successfully resupply our troops and personnel stationed there", the statement said.
The Philippine coast guard was escorting the two resupply vessels back to port, the National Security Council said. "This is exactly the kind of event that can happen given their dangerous manoeuvring," said Jay Batongbacal, director of the University of the Philippines' Institute for Maritime Affairs and Law of the Sea.
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