🤑 November 12, 2023: News Yahoo > Chinese ships chase Philippine vessels in South China Sea. - #China

Jim Gomez, The Associated Press, 

Joeal Calupitan, 

The Associated Press

Sun, November 12, 2023 at 7:35 AM PST

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As a U.S. Navy surveillance plane flew in circles, keeping a close watch, dozens of Chinese coast guard and accompanying ships chased and encircled Philippine vessels in the latest confrontation in one of the most dangerous flashpoints in the South China Sea.

At the height of Friday’s four-hour faceoff in the high seas, a Chinese coast guard ship blasted a water cannon toward a Philippine motorboat delivering food and other supplies to Filipino forces on a marooned, rusting warship that serves as the country’s fragile territorial outpost at Second Thomas Shoal.

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