‘Dangerous and provocative’: Chinese vessels confront Philippine ship

Shadow Foreign Affairs Minister Simon Birmingham says the actions of China are “dangerous” and “provocative”. 

This comes after China called on the Philippines to stop its “provocative behaviour” in the South China Sea. 

The Philippines has accused the Chinese Coast Guard of damaging one of its boats in disputed water. 

“These confrontations have been occurring for a long time, but they’ve also been escalating in their frequency and their severity,” Mr Birmingham told Sky News Australia. 

“The actions of China are dangerous, they’re provocative, and they’re unjustified.”

[turdferguson]

Meanwhile, Chinese ships are illegaly fishing on every countries waters.

[echozebra]

most greediest nation on earth invading Philippine EEZ

[dprecones]

Chinese is the one doing provocation, they were inside Philippines territory harrasing Philippines ship.

[jefftysoutube]

Cancel Chinese visas into Australia until they show less aggression.
Put a surcharge on all Chinese investment to pay forAukus.

[DMEeVer]

The most greediest country bullying small countries

[leadelima]

SCARBOROUGH SHOAL BELONG TO THE PHILIPPINES.🇵🇭

[ayenlee]

Lets unite and boycot all chinese products and brands....stop buying it for good!

[mikebajar]

West Philippine Sea is a Philippine territory🇵🇭🇵🇭

[mxyeneo]

I think it is time for the United Nations to teach China a lesson.

[Joyce_Mira]

Stop saying South china sea.It's a Philippines territory, the west Philippines sea

[BilinmotoTb]

Better to cancel all the visa of China in the Philippines

[nikehusk]

How can China claim it is their territory? It’s a long way from their coastline; on the other side, it is much closer to the Philippines.

[noelsantos]

Philippine coast guard should arm their ships!!

[EZsWaterBoy]

Second Thomas Shoal, also known as Ayungin Shoal is only 194 km; 121 mi west of Palawan and more than 1000 km; 620 mi south of Hainan china, so it is not part of China, never was part of China. Even historically it wasn't China, a Chinese Junk only travels at about 5 mph, so it would take 5 days or more under good sail to make it there to start fishing, while Paraws (traditional filipino sailboats) travel at a speed of 20-30 km; 15 mph, so who historically fished the Avugin Shoals? I can tell you it wouldn't have been the Chinese. Sailing somewhere 8 hours to go fish before the days of refrigeration versus 5 days is a massive difference, the Second Thomas Shoal is and historically was part of the Philippines. The area is only called the South China Sea because of the British, they put incorrect names all over the map, so just because someone from London mislabeled something doesn't give anyone the right to claim it.

[keurikeuri]

As a Filipino, I'm thankful for foreign media for showing this in their own programs. This will help more in showing to the world the true infromation of what is happening making it hard for China to make people believe in their blatant lies against the Philippines.

[lakan]

China please! The audacity is unbelievable!

[owaignacio]

Its time to invoke the MDT this is a clear attack to phils ship.

[lagawan]

It’s WEST PHILIPPINE SEA NOT SOUTH CHINA SEA.

[robertservano]

CHINA PRODUCTS, CAN'T ACCEPT IN THE PHILIPPINES..DONE😢

[_wokeweaklingscryoverwords_]

China need to respect it's neighbors which surrounds the South China Sea.