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Two U.S. Navy warships were deployed near Scarborough Shoal in the West Philippine Sea, a disputed waters in the South China Sea on Wednesday, just two days after a collision between two Chinese vessels while pursuing a Philippine Coast Guard ship in the area, according to the Philippines top government officials.
The Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer USS Higgins (DDG-76) and the Independence-class SCAR USS Cincinnati (LCS-20) conducted freedom of navigation and overflight patrols around the shoal. While PLA Navy vessel with hull number 568 was observed shadowing the U.S. ships, about 30 nautical miles (55 kilometers) from the Scarborough Shoal.
There were no reports of any untoward incident, based on the information from U.S. officials and a Philippine surveillance flight.
The U.S. Navy has staged what it calls, freedom-of-navigation voyages and overflights, in the South China Sea for years, to challenge China’s restrictions, and its demand for entry notifications, in virtually the entire stretch of the disputed waters that it claims. That has angered China, and its forces have had, close runs-in with U.S. warships and aircraft on such patrols, in international waters and airspace.
If the Chinese destroyer had succeeded in ramming, and probably sinking the Philippine Coast Guard, instead of its companion, this would have been considered an overt act of war, that could trigger US involvement through their mutual defense treaty with the Philippines.
Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has said the death of a Filipino sailor in an incident of this type could be seen as an act of war. The PLA destroyer could have struck the much smaller Philippine Coast Guard ship instead. This would have almost certainly resulted in injury and death – even the sinking of the Philippine vessel.
American officials have repeatedly pledged to defend the Philippines from any armed attack in the disputed waters, stressing Washington’s ironclad commitment to the 1951 defense treaty.
Chinese ships appeared to be trying to sandwich the Philippine Coast Guard ship between the PLA Navy and CCG ship. Forcing it to take the water cannon blast, at close range, down into its engine intakes. And one of the Chinese ships was supposed to bump it, hit its stern or otherwise cripple it. Chinese vessels were trying a new, bold, and intricate maneuver, against a clearly well-prepared Philippine crew, without either of those prerequisites succeed, and paid the price for its own aggressive actions.




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