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The Philippines opens a new monitoring base on a remote island in the disputed South China Sea (apnews.com)

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The Philippines inaugurated a new coast guard monitoring base Friday on an island occupied by Filipino forces in the disputed South China Sea and plans to expand joint patrols with the United States and Australia to counter China’s “pure bullying” in the strategic waterway, a Philippine security official said.

High-seas faceoffs between Chinese and Philippine ships have intensified this year in the contested waters, fueling fears of a larger conflict that could involve the United States. The U.S. has repeatedly warned that it’s obligated to defend the Philippines, its oldest treaty ally in Asia, if Filipino forces come under an armed attack, including in the South China Sea.

China has accused the U.S. of meddling in an Asian dispute and sowing discord in the region.

National Security Adviser Eduardo Ano and other Philippine officials flew to Thitu Island on an air force plane Friday and led a ceremony to open the newly constructed, two-story center that will have radar, ship-tracking and other monitoring equipment to monitor China’s actions in the hotly disputed waters and other problems, including sea accidents.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I really can’t understand what China thinks it will gain by doubling down on its bluster every time it gets called out like this. They can’t be batshit crazy enough to think that actually entering an armed conflict that will bring U.S. involvement will result in anything but utter disaster for them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:

High-seas faceoffs between Chinese and Philippine ships have intensified this year in the contested waters, fueling fears of a larger conflict that could involve the United States.

The U.S. has repeatedly warned that it’s obligated to defend the Philippines, its oldest treaty ally in Asia, if Filipino forces come under an armed attack, including in the South China Sea.

It’s pure bullying,” Ano told reporters after the seaside ceremony, describing the actions of Chinese ships as openly flouting international law.

It also recently launched joint sea and air patrols with the United States and Australia in a new deterrence strategy that puts the two allied powers on a collision course with Beijing.

Ano said the separate joint patrols involving the U.S. and Australia would continue and could expand to include other nations like Japan once a security agreement being negotiated by Tokyo and Manila was concluded.

The 37-hectare (91-acre) island now boasts internet and cellphone connections, a more stable power and water supply, a newly cemented runway, a wharf, grade school, gymnasium and even an evacuation center in times of typhoons.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Don't worry China, we super promise not to militarise it 🤞

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Can articles stop referring to this as disputed? It's disputed by literally one entity, China, who has no claim to their "land grab" of most of the South China Sea when they have no historical claim or international maritime agreement to any such claim. This was already settled, so it's just China being a big fucking baby on the International Stage. Everyone else is just trying to keep China from steam rolling them in the region and hold on to their Internationally Recognized and Historical claims to their waters.

It's not even saber rattling at this point, but at some junction one of their overly aggressive and unprofessional mig pilots is going to fucking cause chaos when they trigger a collision.