Watch a Risky China-Philippines Confrontation in the South China Sea | WSJ 

I’m no military man, but that looked a little too close to an armed confrontation for my liking.

Time for Philippines to build up their navy with bigger ships

Wow that is very scary. Much respect the Filipinos for maintaining their ground. Takes a lot of courage.

The arrogance of the Chinese is mind boggling. For them to think that the entire sea is theirs only is just unbelievable.

still no country recognizing the 10 dash lines...

This is not confrontation but a bullying.

David ang Goliath, Filipinos are so Brave god bless all filipino.

The 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, to which China is a signatory, mandates states to respect Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZs) as a legal basis. An EEZ is an area extending 200 nautical miles from a country's coastline, within which the country has special rights regarding the exploration and use of marine resources. However, China seeks to extend its territory well beyond its EEZ, disregarding the territorial claims of Southeast Asian countries. Despite an arbitration court ruling that declared China's actions lacked a legal basis. Unlike most nations that settle territorial dispute this way, in a respectful and peaceful manner, China refuses to honor the court decision. They even threaten war. This behavior demonstrates China's greediness in pursuing expansive territorial claims, undermining international agreements, and the sovereignty of neighboring nations. China disregards its own agreement and international laws which it willingly entered into. At this point, how can you trust China? Beware, just another Putin!

This is next level pettiness

Im waiting for the Philippines to defend their territory.

0:07 you can easily see who's the one doing the bullying here. one does not care a collision will occur while the other side is preventing it.

thats west philippines sea not south china sea

Bullying a smaller country is cowardness.

Wow, this explains everything in 4 minutes! Very insightful.

Thank you WSJ for showing this to the world.

If all of us took a count of " Made in China" products at home, on average, it could easily amount to more than 50%. Then we wonder, how come China has so much power.

thank you for this documentary

Thanks for your supporting Filipino freedom i am an Philippine army reserve force thank you

Meanwhile Vice President: No comment

This channel gives good knowledge

You can lose your eye sight or go deaf if that water hits you. It hits you like a truck and your ears and eyes are VERY vulnerable, just FYI. This could have gone bad. It's very common actually (since water cannons are used in crowd control, there are plenty of examples)

The area is not contested UNCLOS already gives its verdict its part of PH EEZ and everyon can pass through, while the remaining part of SCS is international waters.

I can’t imagine how the Chinese government could afford to paint themselves as a victim in this story when the maps say otherwise, when their acts say otherwise, when they are breaking international laws the entire world agrees upon (except China) and when Filipinos are trying to keep calm despite the triggers and the bullying. It’s as if we don’t have hearts, we don’t have rights and we don’t exist. If the Chinese government represents its people, I don’t know how heartless it is to live in their soil. I feel for those Chinese men and women who are felt so misrepresented by these actions. This is wrong, religiously, ethically, culturally, professionally wrong wherever you choose to see this.

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Stop calling it "south cina sea" if you don't want they keep claiming it

Do continue to bring such insightful news from all corners of the world!

And still “these individuals” are still proud of themselves, mind blowing

i love philippine and tibet. this two country is awesome.

This shows how unbelievably brazen the Chinese 🇨🇳 regime is when they go unpunished.

Scary stuff, hope everyone stays safe 🙏

Thanks for being with Us. Only the truth prevails.

✝️ 🙏🙏🙏 God bless the Philippines ❤️❤️❤️🌹🕊️🇵🇭

They should NOT HAVE to stake their claim, it is clearly in Philippine exclusive economic zone!

Hope other countries does not get bullied by China

So the 11 dash line is next week?

The world is on edge

China is very far from west phil sea and yet china wanted to accupy the west phil sea or its EEZ. China should understand what the map says if they know how to read it. May be their eyes are so small or blind.

This should invoke the 🇺🇸 US - Philippines's 🇵🇭 Mutual Defense agreement.

A friend of mine is in the coast guard and they've been instructed not to engage and only use our smaller/older boats. Even if we brought out the big boats, which isn't much, their naval capacity would still eat us up.

The brp sierra madre is a commissioned ph navy ship serving as an outpost inside ph eez. It has every right to be there unlike those chinese ships which under international law are only permitted to sail through those areas within ph eez.

China's got no chill

It's a shame. The Philippines, a country with more than 7,100+ islands lacks a strong Maritime defense capability

Those communist are so far away from they coast, those water are close to the Filipino

This goes on over and over and yet nothing is resolved

First of, the 2016 Arbitral Ruling is not illegal. It is very legal not just in the Philippines but also accepted globally and has become part of UNCLOS. Only China continues to insist that it is illegal, despite being an UNCLOS signatory. Secondly, China's sovereignty claim over areas within its so-called 9 or 10-dash line has already been declared illegal and this ruling was accepted globally. Thirdly, China cannot claim sovereignty over the area by using historical claims because even its history and historical maps did not consistently and clearly define the Spratly Islands, Scarborough Shoal, and even the the Paracel Islands as its own territory. Lastly, China cannot claim the South China Sea as its own lake and part of its territorial waters because it is not a lake and its not within their land boundaries. Even if China includes Taiwan as its territory, it is not enough to support a claim of sovereignty over the SCS, more so the WPS.

물대포를 쏘는 자체가 전쟁 아닌가?

That little boy is a good reporter

LETS GET IN ON!

“Coast Guard” rolling my eyes 🙄

Winnie the pooh on action.

scarier thing is their Militia is twice if not thrice as big as the Philippine coast guard vessels.

Some things are inevitable

Chuck Fina!

We need to rename that sea, "Everybody's Sea".

That's not freaking confrontation, that's straight up bullying!

The entire world should start referring to it as the West Philippine Sea. China's assertiveness come in part because of the naming of the sea. Next they'll plant flags in every Chinatown in every country.

China is huge. But no, they need that small area...?

well they’re Chinese..im not surprised

I think you should stay at wall street reporting the layoff happenning...

Filipina negara Kolonial Amerika yang sangat setia kepada tuannya.

Why does China arrogantly think they own an entire sea which is one of the world's busiest trade routes and which ships from many nations have traversed for millennia?

Crazy...

🇵🇭🇵🇭🇵🇭

I have a high respect Chinese before. Now no more.

Starting to hate mainland China

China is not just testing the Philippines. They are underhandedly testing the patience the United States has for conflict and to see how strong their mutual defense treaties are. But Philippines isn't Hong Kong, and the United States isn't the UK. NATO is riding on us protecting our treaty with the Philippines, so is the Rio Treaty, and the ones with Japan, South Korea, the Pacific Islands and in Africa and Middle East. If China pokes too hard, they will be the second to experience a mutual defense treaty. Iraq didn't last long...

They forgot the battle of yultong💪💪

No one talks about the indian ocean about how open and free it is to have freedom of navigation obeying the laws of the UN...!

Where is the Phil. president guy who was favorable to China and did his best to please it while distancing himself from the US and Western countries ?

correction not 9 dash line, but now its 10 dash line.

Honest question: Would air dropping supplies be easier and avoid this confrontation? 🤔

THIS IS BULLYING

An act from cowardice from China

It looks pretty gloomy down the road as resupplying the Sierra Madre became dangerously difficult. If interceptions like this one continues, casualties are bound to happen. US is treaty-bound to defend the Philippines. This can go very ugly very soon.

In Malaysia, some close to politician are closely influenced by china. Triads too,

*The international law* is very clear on the South China Sea: - parts of it belong to some ASEAN countries including the Philippines 🇵🇭, - the rest of it is the international water, - no part of it belongs to China🇨🇳 or Taiwan🇹🇼.

these kind of thing also happen on indonesia waters and kinda still going on, by threatening their interest in indonesia they kinda back off

And someone still doesn't understand why we need other superpowers like the US to keep these bullies in check.

What's funny is Philippines is one of the top countries in building warships yet they don't equip their coast guard with faster and better boats

Last time I heard, you have the right for self-defense. They shoot you with water cannons, you shoot them back with rocket propelled missiles. My opinion only.

It ain't South China Sea. It's West Philippine Sea.

The Grart foreiner covered that news "AGBIAG O MABUHAY

You had the opportunity to play Rock and Awe in the background, why waste it?

This is happening for 12 years so nothing new

This needs to spill over to something Dangerous NOW! time to take it on the Offensive instead of being on the defensive all the time.

Should pass international law setting limits of each countries Coast guard NOT to leave their Coast...

Yesssssir let’s goooooop!

Weapons have many forms, military alliance is another form of weapon. Philippines can gain power by building alliances with nearby and slightly far countries like Australia and New Zealand and Japan and Taiwan. Attack can be physical and it can be in a form of reputation. By recongizing or threaten to build relationship and recognise Taiwan, can make china to rethink it's action. Direct confrontation is like attacking the frontal gate of a walled city, it is the most fortified region of the city. By recognising Taiwan, it attacks the sovereignity of China, by attacking the region that China cannot defend. It cannot do anything if Philippine build counselate on Taiwan, hence China is defenseless over it. Never strike the strongest region of a defence, always aim at the weakest spot.

I hope soon the Philippines can defend itself more effectively. The US may be willing to help but just like in Ukraine it is unpredictable. Ph just wants peace and respect for its sovereign territories, nothing more.

i wonder if Philippine Ships talk back over radio to Chinese vessel asserting its UNCLOS right.

Stop calling in South China Sea if you can't even understand the unclos! To clarify, the Philippines' claim on Spratlys (aside from a few natural islands) are not territorial, but simply in context of an EEZ. An EEZ is not territorial water, but enforcement of international laws is within the obligation of the nation or nations controlling an EEZ. If two nations have overlapping EEZ's, then it is their obligation to talk in relation to sharing of resources within the shared EEZ. China, in this regard, is regarded by UNCLOS as an outsider in any such talks regarding Spratly's. The only ones who can are the Philippines, Malaysia, etc, who shares the overlapping EEZ. In regards to Scarborough shoal which is not part of Spratlys, the claims of China (and by extension, Taiwan) was also effectively rejected by the same court ruling. The Philippines is the sole legal claimant of the said shoal, and anyone else is basically an illegal settler. Also, speaking of natural islands, China doesn't even control ANY natural island in the Spratly group of islands. Even Taiwan is ahead of them in terms of controlling a natural island so they are relegated into destroying coral reefs to have some semblance of a claim. And that's the contentious part since reefs cannot be considered as territory, but falls under an EEZ and extended continental shelf which can only be exploited by the nations surrounding it. Taiwan controls the largest island, Vietnam controls 9 large islands, the Philippines controls 7 islands, and Malaysia controls 1. China's claims is basically flimsy. If the Philippines is as aggressive as China, then we can easily militarize any one of those islands. But we're a peace loving country #2 Any such historical claim has already been addressed in the UNCLOS decision. It's all basically a bunch of story of Chinese tourists setting up camp, alluding to an ambiguous island, and not even claiming that those belongs to China. By that very logic, then Ancient India belongs to China just because they visited it, which is absurd. In regards to the islands, the CCP throughout the decades kept moving which island is which based on convenience. Even the so-called observatories were never found and could never have possibly existed due to size on the rocks (this one specifically referring to Scarborough Shoal, where the CCP claims to have built an observatory in Ancient times) that China has been claiming. As I have said, China neither owns nor controls ANY natural island in the area. What was clarified in the 2016 ruling under UNCLOS, which China is a signatory of, is that a country can only claim territories based on NATURAL ISLANDS. The Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia and Taiwan are the only ones who controls natural islands in the Spratlys and therefore are the sole countries with legal claim to an EEZ within those territories. China, in effect, is an illegal settler. China's claim of ownership over the sea itself has also been overturned by UNCLOS due to its incompatibility with modern international treaties, laws and agreements. Not to mention, what's been stated in history as part of China's seas has been ambiguous at best, and could also have been simultaneously claimed by any of the other nations. That doesn't make it a valid claim in any modern internationally recognized world order.

who owns the pacific and atlantic ocean?

Partner with India.

The world will know!

And yet the Philippines is still NOT accelerating acquisition of coastguard ships. And they exclude used ships to maintain the convenient excuse of insufficient ships. And others prioritize warships despite useless in greyzone, because Filipinos prioritize self-aggrandizement from warships

Where are the American NAVY!

I would say the Chinese written record do exist first, but whether if thats enough for claiming the whole south China sea is debatable. But modern international laws system is kind of building on these written records, so things become complicated. Hard to say it is fair for Philippines, but it is also hard to persuade the Chinese government to give up this valuable land to an American ally. The only thing not that bad is, there still no casualty exist by now, and I think the Chinese government is smart enough to prevent the war and will not claim the Philippines mainland in 10 years. But I do agree the act of Beijing government is becoming more and more imperialistic, just like another united states. Hope Washington and Beijing are both calm enough to prevent the potential war in south China sea.

Chinese stop claiming territory that is not your own. You are so greedy. You just want to claim it because of the gas and oil deposited there. The map clearly shows that wps was owned by the ph.

Wdym South China Sea its West Philippines Sea

It’s called the West Philippine Sea, not the South China Sea.