The Chinese military said it expelled a Philippine plane from airspace over Scarborough Shoal on Tuesday in a manoeuvre that the Philippine coastguard described as reckless. The People’s Liberation Army (PLA) said a C-208 light utility plane sent by the Philippines “illegally invaded the airspace” above the shoal, known in China as Huangyan Island and…
China expelled a Philippine plane that “illegally intruded” into the airspace over a contested South China Sea shoal on Thursday, according to the China Coast Guard. “A C-208 plane illegally invaded the airspace of China’s Huangyan Island on Thursday,” coastguard spokesman Liu Dejun said on Friday, using the Chinese name for Scarborough Shoal. “The Chinese…
“The China Coast Guard conducted law enforcement patrols in the territorial waters of China’s Huangyan Island and the surrounding area,” the China Coast Guard said, referring to Scarborough Shoal, known as Panatag Shoal in the Philippines “This was a law-enforcement activity carried out by the Chinese maritime police in accordance with the law.” The patrol…
The Southern Theatre Command of the People’s Liberation Army said the patrol activities were “carried out in accordance with the law”. Scarborough Shoal, known as Huangyan Island in China and Panatag Shoal in the Philippines, is claimed by both Beijing and Manila and has been effectively controlled by China since an intense stand-off in 2012….
On Sunday Beijing published a set of geographic coordinates for 16 base points around the feature, which it calls Huangyan island, the first time it has done so for parts of the sea claimed by Manila. “Huangyan Dao [island] has always been China’s territory,” the Chinese foreign ministry said. “This is a natural step by…