{"id":493869,"date":"2025-10-12T15:19:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T15:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/493869\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T15:19:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T15:19:14","slug":"philippines-says-chinese-ship-deliberately-rammed-government-boat-in-south-china-sea-asia-pacific","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/493869\/","title":{"rendered":"Philippines says Chinese ship \u2018deliberately rammed\u2019 government boat in South China Sea | Asia Pacific"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">A Chinese ship \u201cdeliberately rammed\u201d a Philippine government vessel anchored near an island in a disputed part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/south-china-sea\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">South China Sea<\/a>, Manila\u2019s coast guard said on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Confrontations between Philippine and Chinese vessels occur frequently in the South <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/china\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">China<\/a> Sea, which Beijing claims nearly in its entirety despite an international ruling that the claim has no legal basis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/philippines\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Philippines<\/a> said a Chinese coast guard ship \u201cfired its water cannon\u201d at the BRP Datu Pagbuaya, a vessel belonging to Manila\u2019s fisheries bureau, at 9.15am on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cJust three minutes later \u2026 the same [Chinese] vessel deliberately rammed the stern\u201d of the Philippine boat, \u201ccausing minor structural damage but no injuries to the crew\u201d, the statement said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cDespite these bullying tactics and aggressive actions \u2026 we will not be intimidated or driven away.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Beijing blamed the Philippines for the collision. Liu Dejun, a Chinese coast guard spokesperson, said the Philippine ship \u201cignored repeated stern warnings from the Chinese side, and dangerously approached\u201d the other ship.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Manila\u2019s coast guard said the incident took place near Thitu Island, part of the Spratly island group where Beijing has sought to assert its sovereignty claims for years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Chinese ship \u201cdeliberately rammed\u201d a Philippine government vessel anchored near an island in a disputed part of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":493870,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[12,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-493869","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115361871658686240","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/493870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}