The presence of the China Coast Guard (CCG) persists despite the effort of the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) to block them and assist the four main vessels of the second civilian resupply mission of the Atin Ito Coalition to the Bajo de Masinloc or Panatag Shoal in the West Philippine Sea May 16, 2024. Maria Tan, ABS-CBN News/File 

Agence France-Presse

<img src="https://news-image-api.abs-cbn.com/Prod/editorImage/172414345964120240515-atin-ito-wps-MT-42.jpg" class="fr-fic fr-dib" alt="China says US has 'no right to intervene' in South China Sea disputes"><span id="isPasted" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">The presence of the China Coast Guard (CCG) persists despite the effort of the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) to block them and assist the four main vessels of the second civilian resupply mission of the Atin Ito Coalition to the Bajo de Masinloc or Panatag Shoal in the West Philippine Sea May 16, 2024. Maria Tan, ABS-CBN News/File&nbsp;&nbsp;<p id="isPasted" style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; -webkit- text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.3; letter-spacing: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">China warned the United States on Tuesday that it has &quot;no right to intervene&quot; in its maritime disputes with the Philippines after another clash near a disputed reef in the South China Sea.<p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; -webkit- text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.3; letter-spacing: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">China and the Philippines have had repeated confrontations in the waters over the past year, including around a warship, grounded in 1999 by Manila on the contested Second Thomas Shoal, which hosts a garrison.<p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; -webkit- text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.3; letter-spacing: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/2024/8/20/doj-orders-probe-on-alleged-guo-escape-eyes-sanctions-1243">PH eyes case over ramming of PCG ships but says will not escalate tensions in West Philippine Sea</a><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; -webkit- text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.3; letter-spacing: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Both countries said on Monday that their coast guard ships had collided near the disputed Sabina Shoal, located 140 kilometers (86 miles) west of the Philippine island of Palawan and about 1,200 kilometers from Hainan island, the closest Chinese landmass.<p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; -webkit- text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.3; letter-spacing: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">China claims almost the entire South China Sea despite an international tribunal ruling that its assertion has no legal basis.<p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; -webkit- text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.3; letter-spacing: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">The United States condemned the &quot;dangerous actions&quot; against &quot;lawful Philippine maritime operations&quot; on Monday after the latest clash.<p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; -webkit- text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.3; letter-spacing: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">&quot;These actions are the latest examples of (China) using dangerous and escalatory measures to enforce its expansive and unlawful South China Sea maritime claims,&quot; State Department spokesman Vedant Patel said.<p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; -webkit- text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.3; letter-spacing: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/2024/8/20/afp-129-chinese-ships-monitored-in-west-philippine-sea-in-past-week-1301">AFP: 129 Chinese ships monitored in West Philippine Sea in past week</a><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; -webkit- text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.3; letter-spacing: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Asked about Patel&#39;s remarks on Tuesday, his Chinese counterpart Mao Ning defended Beijing&#39;s &quot;legal measures to safeguard its territorial sovereignty and maritime rights and interests&quot;.<p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; -webkit- text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.3; letter-spacing: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">&quot;The US is not a party in the South China Sea and has no right to intervene in maritime disputes between China and the Philippines,&quot; Mao told a regular briefing.<p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; -webkit- text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.3; letter-spacing: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">&quot;The US should stop provoking confrontation in the South China Sea, not disrupt regional stability and not escalate tensions,&quot; Mao said.<p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; -webkit- text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.3; letter-spacing: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Analysts have said Beijing&#39;s aim is to push eastwards from the Second Thomas Shoal towards the neighboring Sabina Shoal in the Spratly Islands, encroaching on Manila&#39;s exclusive economic zone and normalizing Chinese control of the area.<p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; -webkit- text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.3; letter-spacing: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">The confrontations have echoes of 2012 when Beijing took control of Scarborough Shoal, another strategic feature in the South China Sea closest to the Philippines.<p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; -webkit- text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.3; letter-spacing: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/2024/8/20/pcg-invites-china-to-negotiating-table-after-fresh-tensions-in-wps-1004">READ: PCG invites China to &#39;negotiating table&#39; after fresh tensions in WPS</a><p style="margin: 1em 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; -webkit- text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.3; letter-spacing: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">&copy; Agence France-Presse

<p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; -webkit- text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.3; letter-spacing: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Both countries said on Monday that their coast guard ships had collided near the disputed Sabina Shoal, located 140 kilometers (86 miles) west of the Philippine island of Palawan and about 1,200 kilometers from Hainan island, the closest Chinese landmass.<p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; -webkit- text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.3; letter-spacing: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">China claims almost the entire South China Sea despite an international tribunal ruling that its assertion has no legal basis.<p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; -webkit- text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.3; letter-spacing: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">The United States condemned the &quot;dangerous actions&quot; against &quot;lawful Philippine maritime operations&quot; on Monday after the latest clash.<p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; -webkit- text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.3; letter-spacing: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">&quot;These actions are the latest examples of (China) using dangerous and escalatory measures to enforce its expansive and unlawful South China Sea maritime claims,&quot; State Department spokesman Vedant Patel said.<p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; -webkit- text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.3; letter-spacing: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/2024/8/20/afp-129-chinese-ships-monitored-in-west-philippine-sea-in-past-week-1301">AFP: 129 Chinese ships monitored in West Philippine Sea in past week</a><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; -webkit- text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.3; letter-spacing: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Asked about Patel&#39;s remarks on Tuesday, his Chinese counterpart Mao Ning defended Beijing&#39;s &quot;legal measures to safeguard its territorial sovereignty and maritime rights and interests&quot;.<p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; -webkit- text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.3; letter-spacing: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">&quot;The US is not a party in the South China Sea and has no right to intervene in maritime disputes between China and the Philippines,&quot; Mao told a regular briefing.<p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; -webkit- text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.3; letter-spacing: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">&quot;The US should stop provoking confrontation in the South China Sea, not disrupt regional stability and not escalate tensions,&quot; Mao said.<p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; -webkit- text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.3; letter-spacing: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Analysts have said Beijing&#39;s aim is to push eastwards from the Second Thomas Shoal towards the neighboring Sabina Shoal in the Spratly Islands, encroaching on Manila&#39;s exclusive economic zone and normalizing Chinese control of the area.<p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; -webkit- text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.3; letter-spacing: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">The confrontations have echoes of 2012 when Beijing took control of Scarborough Shoal, another strategic feature in the South China Sea closest to the Philippines.<p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; -webkit- text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.3; letter-spacing: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/2024/8/20/pcg-invites-china-to-negotiating-table-after-fresh-tensions-in-wps-1004">READ: PCG invites China to &#39;negotiating table&#39; after fresh tensions in WPS</a><p style="margin: 1em 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; -webkit- text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.3; letter-spacing: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">&copy; Agence France-Presse

<p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; -webkit- text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.3; letter-spacing: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">China and the Philippines have had repeated confrontations in the waters over the past year, including around a warship, grounded in 1999 by Manila on the contested Second Thomas Shoal, which hosts a garrison.<p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; -webkit- text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.3; letter-spacing: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/2024/8/20/doj-orders-probe-on-alleged-guo-escape-eyes-sanctions-1243">PH eyes case over ramming of PCG ships but says will not escalate tensions in West Philippine Sea</a>

<img src="https://news-image-api.abs-cbn.com/Prod/editorImage/172414345964120240515-atin-ito-wps-MT-42.jpg" class="fr-fic fr-dib" alt="China says US has 'no right to intervene' in South China Sea disputes"><span id="isPasted" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">The presence of the China Coast Guard (CCG) persists despite the effort of the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) to block them and assist the four main vessels of the second civilian resupply mission of the Atin Ito Coalition to the Bajo de Masinloc or Panatag Shoal in the West Philippine Sea May 16, 2024. Maria Tan, ABS-CBN News/File&nbsp;&nbsp;<p id="isPasted" style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; -webkit- text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.3; letter-spacing: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">China warned the United States on Tuesday that it has &quot;no right to intervene&quot; in its maritime disputes with the Philippines after another clash near a disputed reef in the South China Sea.

China warned the United States on Tuesday that it has "no right to intervene" in its maritime disputes with the Philippines after another clash near a disputed reef in the South China Sea.

China warned the United States on Tuesday that it has "no right to intervene" in its maritime disputes with the Philippines after another clash near a disputed reef in the South China Sea.

China says US has 'no right to intervene' in South China Sea disputes | ABS-CBN News

World

World

China says US has 'no right to intervene' in South China Sea disputes

China says US has 'no right to intervene' in South China Sea disputes