{"id":46240,"date":"2023-10-23T16:05:05","date_gmt":"2023-10-23T16:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/uncategorized\/2023\/10\/23\/us-warns-it-will-defend-philippines-after-chinese-vessels-incidents\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T20:19:57","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T20:19:57","slug":"us-warns-it-will-defend-philippines-after-chinese-vessels-incidents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/news\/your-navy\/2023\/10\/23\/us-warns-it-will-defend-philippines-after-chinese-vessels-incidents\/","title":{"rendered":"US warns it will defend Philippines after Chinese vessels incidents"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">MANILA, Philippines  \u2014 The United States renewed a warning Monday that it would defend the Philippines in case of an armed attack under <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/china-beijing-antony-blinken-philippines-manila-5b56ae40db4ddbcd5b98e67f1007c0fd\" target=\"_blank\">a 1951 treaty<\/a>, after Chinese ships blocked and collided with two Filipino vessels off a contested shoal in the South China Sea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Philippine diplomats summoned a Chinese Embassy official in Manila on Monday for a strongly worded protest following <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/china-beijing-antony-blinken-philippines-manila-5b56ae40db4ddbcd5b98e67f1007c0fd\" target=\"_blank\">Sunday\u2019s collisions off Second Thomas Shoal<\/a>. No injuries were reported but the encounters damaged a Philippine coast guard ship and a wooden-hulled supply boat operated by navy personnel, officials said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. called an emergency meeting with the defense secretary and other top military and security officials to discuss the latest hostilities in the disputed waters. The Philippines and other neighbors of China have resisted Beijing\u2019s sweeping territorial claims over virtually the entire South China Sea, and some, like Manila, have sought U.S. military support as incidents multiply.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After the meeting, Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro blasted China in a news conference for resorting to \u201cbrute force\u201d that he said endangered Filipino crew members and for twisting the facts to conceal its aggression.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe Philippine government views the latest aggression by China as a blatant violation of international law,\u201d Teodoro said. \u201cChina has no legal right or authority to conduct law enforcement operations in our territorial waters and in our exclusive economic zone.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/news\/your-navy\/2023\/04\/03\/philippines-names-4-new-camps-for-us-forces-amid-china-fury\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"159\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP23090539874082.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">Philippines names 4 new camps for US forces amid China fury<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">The Philippine government has identified four new local military areas where rotational U.S. forces with their weapons will be allowed to stay indefinitely<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Marcos ordered an investigation of the high-sea collisions, Teodoro said, but he refused to disclose what steps the Philippine government would take.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe are taking these incidents seriously at the highest levels of government,\u201d he said, adding that the government called for a news conference to provide accurate facts. \u201cThe Chinese government is deliberately obfuscating the truth,\u201d the defense chief said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Philippines also plans to raise its alarm over the Chinese ships\u2019 dangerous maneuvers in talks between China and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations on a proposed nonaggression pact \u2014 a \u201ccode of conduct\u201d \u2014 to prevent a major armed conflict in the South China Sea. Beijing is hosting the three-day negotiations starting Monday, two Philippine officials told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because of a lack of authority to publicly discuss details of the talks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Teodoro said it was \u201cvery ironic\u201d that China was hosting the talks that aim to prevent major conflicts at sea when they just committed \u201ca blatant disregard of international law.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The territorial conflicts involving China, the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, Taiwan and Brunei have long been regarded as a flashpoint in a delicate fault line in the U.S.-China rivalry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">About five Chinese coast guard ships, eight accompanying vessels and two navy ships formed a blockade on Sunday to prevent two Philippine coast guard ships and two boats from delivering food and other supplies to <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/south-china-sea-disputes-philippines-b7a110ca593f502759b690a3cf071912\" target=\"_blank\">Filipino forces stationed at Second Thomas Shoal<\/a> aboard a marooned navy ship, Philippine coast guard Commodore Jay Tarriela said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During the standoff, one of the Philippine coast guard ships and a supply boat were separately hit by a Chinese coast guard ship and a vessel. Only one of the two Filipino boats managed to deliver supplies to Philippine forces, Tarriela said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The senior Chinese diplomat who was summoned by Philippine foreign officials repeated China\u2019s assertion that the Philippine vessels intruded into Chinese territory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cChina once again urges the Philippines to take seriously China\u2019s grave concerns, honor its promise, stop making provocations at sea, stop making dangerous moves, stop groundlessly attacking and slandering China, and to tow away the illegally \u2018grounded\u2019 warship as soon as possible,\u201d Zhou Zhiyong was quoted as saying by the Chinese Embassy in Manila.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He was referring to the Sierra Madre, which serves as Manila\u2019s territorial outpost at the shoal after being deliberately ran aground in 1999.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Chinese coast guard on Sunday blamed the Philippine vessels for causing the collisions and said the Filipinos were carrying construction materials to strengthen their outpost at the shoal.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/news\/your-navy\/2023\/02\/08\/a-return-to-the-philippines\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"163\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Navy-Philippines_S-China-Sea_web.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">A return to the Philippines<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">The longtime ally could again host U.S. naval forces in the not-too-distant future.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The U.S. and other allies expressed alarm over the Chinese action. Washington renewed a warning that it\u2019s obligated to defend the Philippines under a 1951 Mutual Defense Treaty if Filipino forces, ships and aircraft come under an armed attack, including \u201cthose of its coast guard \u2014 anywhere in the South China Sea.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe United States stands with our Philippine allies in the face of the People\u2019s Republic of China coast guard and maritime militia\u2019s dangerous and unlawful actions obstructing an October 22 Philippine resupply mission to Second Thomas Shoal,\u201d the U.S. State Department said in a statement issued by its embassy in Manila.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It blamed the dangerous maneuvers by China\u2019s ships for the collisions and added that they \u201cviolated international law by intentionally interfering with the Philippine vessels\u2019 exercise of high seas freedom of navigation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The State Department also cited a 2016 arbitration ruling that invalidated China\u2019s expansive claims to the South China Sea on historical grounds, including in Second Thomas Shoal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Washington lays no claims to the disputed sea but has deployed forces to patrol the waters to promote freedom of navigation and overflight \u2014 moves that have angered Beijing, which has warned the U.S. to stop meddling in what it says is a purely Asian dispute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><i>Mistreanu reported from Beijing. 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