Beijing wants Manila to abandon Ayungin (Second Thomas) Shoal.
Its ramming of two Filipino resupply boats on Sunday was the latest of graduated pressures to make Ayungin’s marine sentries leave.
Beijing’s next attempts to foil marine rotation and re-provisioning will be scarier. Bloodshed can result; lives, limbs, equipment may be lost. China’s communist rulers want Filipino soldiers and civilians to believe that Ayungin is just a reef, and that tide will soon wash away Navy vessel BRP Sierra Madre grounded there. The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting, said the philosopher Sun Tzu.
AFP, PCG, NTF-WPS, DFA regrouped on Monday to brief the press. Malacañang convened a defense-security command conference. Still, Ayungin is within Philippines’ 200-mile exclusive economic zone and 700 miles away from China’s closest island, Hainan. Therefore it cannot be Chinese territory. The ramming highlighted China’s notoriety. Japan, followed by South Korea and France, instantly denounced China’s incursion in Philippine maritime jurisdiction. They warned it against breaching Freedom of Navigation.
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