„Nur Piraten machen so etwas“: Philippinen werfen China vor, bei der Eskalation im Südchinesischen Meer Klingenwaffen eingesetzt zu haben | CNN

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1. Embarrassing for Philippines. Defend yourself! Put a few rounds through the chinese boats and America will be right behind you. You must meet a bully face on. China will back down.

2. >The Philippines has accused China’s Coast Guard of launching a “brutal assault” with bladed weapons during a [South China Sea clash](https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/18/asia/us-condemns-china-scs-collision-philippines-intl-hnk/index.html) earlier this week, a major escalation in a festering dispute that threatens to drag the United States into another global conflict.

   >Footage released by the Philippine military on Thursday showed Chinese coast guard officers [brandishing an axe](https://x.com/TeamAFP/status/1803457303112458431) and other bladed or pointed tools at the Filipino soldiers and [slashing](https://x.com/TeamAFP/status/1803457322653745327) their rubber boat, in what Manila called “a brazen act of aggression.”

   >The Philippines and China have blamed each other for the confrontation near the Second Thomas Shoal in the contested Spratly Islands on Monday, which took place during a Philippine mission to resupply its soldiers stationed on a beached World War II-era warship that asserts Manila’s territorial claims over the atoll.

   >The incident is the latest in a series of increasingly fraught confrontations in the resource-rich and strategically important waterway.

   >But the scenes captured in the latest footage mark an inflection point in the long-simmering tensions, with China adopting new, far more openly aggressive tactics that, analysts say, appear calculated to test how the Philippines and its key defense ally – the United States – will respond.

   >China claims “indisputable sovereignty” over almost all of the South China Sea, and most of the islands and sandbars within it, including many features that are hundreds of miles from mainland China. Multiple governments, including Manila, hold competing claims.

   >Collin Koh, research fellow at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies in Singapore, said it was unprecedented for China’s maritime law enforcement to board a Philippine naval vessel.

   >“They can be rubber boats, but it doesn’t change the fact that they are Philippine Navy vessels, and according to international law, they enjoy what we term as sovereign immunity,” Koh said. “That is very dangerous, because, if anything, that could even be construed as an act of war.”

3. Next time they see swords, just show them how effective cross bow volleys are.

4. They need Kevin McAllister for these missions.

5. Just wait, soon the PRC is going to be granting Letters of Marque.