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Wow china seems less and less like a place anyone should respect.
This is good thing, fishermen have been claiming watercannon warfare for more than 5 years now, this is the first time government had accused, so it's good thing.
They're like that annoying kid who no one keeps in check, that just pesters people while being too weak and pathetic to be a real threat.
All China can muster up is petty shit like this and fistfights with India on their border. Their military is only tested thru genocide. They're a bully that's trying to hide the fact that they're just a paper tiger.
International disputes are so weird sometimes.
And incredibly petty.
"BREAK OUT THE SUPERSOAKERS MEN!"
I wish the Chinese would stop fucking up the shoals and reefs with artifical islands and military bases. At a time when reefs are already getting worn down by climate change, they bulldoze and dredge the bottom and then pollute it with marine fuels. It's like a race to the bottom to destroy the planet and fuck with peaceful poorer neigbors.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Video footage shows Chinese ships firing powerful blasts of water towards the Philippine government vessels.
The National Task Force for the West Philippine Sea said that "Chinese Coast Guard ships utilised water cannons to obstruct" government vessels from delivering fuel and food supplies to fishing boats.
Friction between the two countries over competing sovereignty claims has increased since Ferdinand Marcos Jr became Philippine president last year.
Last month, the Philippines carried out two separate joint air and sea patrols with the US, and with Australia a few days earlier.
The contested waters have also become a naval flashpoint for China-US relations, and in October, US President Joe Biden warned that the US will defend the Philippines in case of any attack.
President Biden's comments were made days after two collisions between Filipino and Chinese vessels in the waters.
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