Manila Times (Philippines)
China has dispatched its most modern patrol ship to the South China Sea, state press said Sunday, after an incident with a US naval vessel and a fresh claim by the Philippines to disputed territory.
The Beijing News said the vessel would conduct patrols on what it called China’s exclusive maritime zone in the disputed waters surrounding the Paracel and Spratly Islands.
It said the converted naval rescue ship would aid Chinese fishing boats and transport vessels.
The Philippines passed a law last week which lays claim to disputed islands in the Spratlys chain that are also claimed by China. Beijing has called the law “illegal and invalid.”
Tensions in the area rose further when the United States sent destroyers to international waters off southern China to protect a naval surveillance patrol that was involved in a standoff with Chinese vessels.
China claimed that the US patrol vessels were within its 200-kilometer economic exclusive zone, but the United States has insisted they were in international waters.
The Spratly and Paracel island chains have been flashpoints for years.
The Spratlys are claimed in full or part by China and Vietnam as well as the Philippines, Malaysia, Brunei and Taiwan, and the Paracels are claimed by China, which now occupies them, as well as by Vietnam and Taiwan.
The Beijing News said the vessel would conduct patrols on what it called China’s exclusive maritime zone in the disputed waters surrounding the Paracel and Spratly Islands.
It said the converted naval rescue ship would aid Chinese fishing boats and transport vessels.
The Philippines passed a law last week which lays claim to disputed islands in the Spratlys chain that are also claimed by China. Beijing has called the law “illegal and invalid.”
Tensions in the area rose further when the United States sent destroyers to international waters off southern China to protect a naval surveillance patrol that was involved in a standoff with Chinese vessels.
China claimed that the US patrol vessels were within its 200-kilometer economic exclusive zone, but the United States has insisted they were in international waters.
The Spratly and Paracel island chains have been flashpoints for years.
The Spratlys are claimed in full or part by China and Vietnam as well as the Philippines, Malaysia, Brunei and Taiwan, and the Paracels are claimed by China, which now occupies them, as well as by Vietnam and Taiwan.
12 comments:
cambodia should join in as well.....lay claim on it......if hun sen refuses then let me claim it as part of cambodia's sovereign.....all activities around, on, under, or in the air space of the Spratlys by other nations are deemed to be illegal and invalid and provokative. I am considering an appropriate response.
10;16 AM! I agree with you.We should also reclaim: Ho chi ming city(prey nokor),the whole kampuchea krom and koh tral.Those territories are khmer's.Furthermore,i think some of our provinces in Thailand were ours also.Anybody who disagree,they can go straight to hell.
OK I agreed with you all, but do you think Hun Sen also has some destroyers to go there ?
LOL
Reminder,Hun Sen has warned those patriots, "made coffins before reclaiming anything that Yuon took from Kampuchea including his soul."
I'd suggest that we should claim as well. Since Khmer Krom has the most rights to claim the Sprately. Khmer Krom also has her sea border to Sprately as well.
We can do it. Forget about HUN SEN, he is YOUN's puppet.
KhmerUSA,
2:33PM, of course he can, fishing boat and canoes with his generals on board.
Hun Sen will send his men with slingshot to war.
Khmer/Thai
Hey, we are Khmer living in Thailand which once was under the Khmer's empire will declare war with HUN SEN and now we aim our missle to Hun Sen Tang Krasang. We will also support our mission with bunker buster too.
We will liberate Khao Penh soon. We will rescue our brother Khmen from YOUN's hand.
Khmerborder,
Cambodian govt got no gut! They are pussy governments...
cambodia wants our koh tral back! go home vietcong bitch!
How, and when we lost this island? anyone knows? everytime i looks at the map man! what ta hell wrong with our govt?
What are you talking about? you meant KOH TRAL?
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