Tensions flared again on Aug 5 when China's coast guard allegedly used water cannon to prevent Manila from sending supplies to its troops occupying the reef in the South China Sea.
MANILA: A crumbling World War II-era Philippine navy vessel stranded on a submerged reef in the South China Sea has long been a flashpoint between Manila and Beijing in their territorial dispute over the waters.China Coast Guard allegedly blocked and fired water cannon at Philippine vessels
It was later renamed the USS Harnett County and deployed during the Vietnam War, where it was used as a helicopter gunship base, according to the United States Naval Institute.WHY IS IT STUCK ON A REEF? Beijing has turned Mischief Reef and other reefs and outcrops into artificial, militarised islands to assert its claims in the waters.
They also regularly attempt to disrupt resupply operations to the tiny Philippine garrison on Second Thomas Shoal, according to Manila. The Philippines is poorly armed, but the United States has said it would defend its longtime ally in the South China Sea under a decades-old mutual defence pact. "The position of China, of course, is they say 'this is ours so we are defending it' and we, for our part, are saying 'no, we own it so we are defending it'. So that becomes a grey area that we are discussing."
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