Filipino officials say that a mission visited Sandy Cay Reef in the disputed sea of southern China and deployed the national flag.
The Philippines has denied a report by the Chinese Coast Guard that China had “treated” a situation that involved six Filipino staff, whom Beijing accused or landed illegally in a small reef in the disputed Sea of Southern China.
The Chinese coast guard spokesman Liu Dejun, said in a statement on Sunday night that six staff of the Philippines had been earlier that day “illegally approached” the Arrecife Tiexian, also known as Sandy Cay, the Chinese side.
Liu said that the Chinese Coast Guard personnel, “the reef and investigated and Dalt with him according to the law.” The statement did not provide more details about the meeting or identities of the six people of the Philippines.
“We urge the Philippines to immediately stop their infraction,” said Liu, adding that the actions “violated China’s territorial sovereignty.”
The authorities in Manila denied Monday that China had tasks about Sandy Cay or that a Mission Filipina on Sunday to Sandy Cay, a reef on which the sand accumulated, was interfered with by the Chinese maritime forces in the disputed area.
Sandy Cay, part of the Spratly Islands, is located near Thitu Island, also called Pag-Asa and the site of a Philippine military installation.
“The officials of the Filipino government have denied categorical that China has sealed Sandy Cay or now there are tasks permanently about Sandy Cay in the South China Sea, describing the statement that was published, the Chinese separation, such as Tebijing, such as Tebijing Beijing, like Tebijing, like an ‘outight, as a last Loweeero, according to Barnaby Barnaby, Barnaby, Barnaby Barnaby, Barnaby Barnaby.
“To prove this point, they showed a recent one, as recently as on Sunday in the real morning, a mission for Sandy Cay by the Philippine Coast Guard and the Navy of the Philippines. Show photos and videos of the Filipino flag that Loty Sandhe’s unfolds, that is conditioned, that is that that is that way, that condition, that condition, that condition, that condition, that condition, that condition, that condition, that condition, that condition, that condition, that condition, that condition, that condition, that condition.
He said that the Filipino officials confirmed that Chinese ships were present near the disputed duration of the reef the mission on Sunday, but denied that the Filipin Mission was “treated” as China states.
The Chinese state media said on Saturday that the country’s coast guard had “implemented maritime control” on the duration of Tiexian’s reefs in mid -April. China’s state station, CCTV, said in the report that the Chinese coast guard landed in Sandy Cay to “exercise sovereignty and jurisdiction” on the reef, carry out an “inspection” and “collect evidence of video about the illegal activities of the Philippine side.”
The radio station published a photograph of five people, dressed in black, standing in the unrecafe unrecise as a dark inflatable boat that swayed in nearby water. Another shot showed four officials of the Coast Guard a national flag on the white surface of the reef, in which CCTV described as a “vote of Sovereigtyty.”
According to the reports, there are no signs that China has permanently occupied the reef.
Also on Monday, the armies of the Philippines and the United States launched three weeks of joint annual exercises, called “Balikatan” or “shoulder shoulder”, which will include an integrated simulation of air defense and antimiles for the first time.
Beijing has said that maneuvers “undermine regional strategic stability” and accused Manila or “collusion with countries outside the region.”
Katrina Yu de Al Jazeera, who reports from Beijing, said that the deployment of a Chinese flag next to the coastal guard in Sandy Cay was significant in terms of affirming the claim of the reef, and the moment before the annual military exercises of the USA. UU.
“So it seems that with the strike of this Chinese flag in this reef, it is sending a message not only to Manila but also to Washington,” Yu said.