Footage posted by the Chinese Coast Guard shows a Chinese ship firing a water cannon at a Philippine Coast Guard vessel as a "warning" while both were sailing through a disputed shoal in the South China Sea.
The Philippine military accused China of taking “excessive and offensive actions” against a supply ship on its way to the Second Thomas Shoal in the South China Sea Sunday.
According to the Philippine complaint, Chinese coast guard ships made “dangerous maneuvers” to block the supply vessel and bombarded it with water cannons.
The Second Thomas Shoal is referred to as Ayungin Shoal by the Philippines. In 1999, the Philippines established a small military outpost on the shoal by ramming it with a decommissioned U.S. Navy ship called the Sierra Madre.
The rusting hulk of the ship has been perched on the shoal ever since, hosting a small force of Filipino marines. The U.S. Naval Institute paid tribute to the ship’s colorful history and her strange fate as an unlovely but functional Filipino island outpost in a history amusingly titled “The Measure of the Sierra Madre” — a play on the title of the classic Humphrey Bogart film The Treasure of the Sierra Madre.
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