Manila refuses China, who, with the Filipino Mission, for the controversial reef | dealt | South Chinese Sea News

According to the Filipino civil servants, a mission of Sandy Cay Reef visited in the controversial South China Sea and unfolded the national flag.

The Philippines have denied a report by the Chinese coast guard that China had “treated” a situation with six Filipino employees who had accused Beijing of having landed illegally on a tiny reef in the controversial South China Sea.

The spokesman for the Chinese coast guard, Liu Dejun, said on Sunday evening in a explanation that six employees of the Philippines earlier the Tiexian reef, which is also known as Sandy Cay on this day, had illegally asked the Chinese side on board despite “warnings and cancellation”.

Liu said that the staff of the Chinese coast guard “was founded in the reef on board and was determined and treated in accordance with the law”. The explanation contained no further details about the encounter or the identities of the six people from the Philippines.

“We ask the Philippines to stop their injury immediately,” said Liu, adding that the actions “violated the territorial sovereignty of China”.

Officials in Manila contested on Monday that China had taken over Sandy Cay or that a Filipino mission was affected by Chinese seaside sailors in the controversial area on Sunday to Sandy Cay – a reef – a reef.

Sandy Cay, part of Spratly Islands, is located near the island of Thitu, Pag-Asa and the location of a Filipino military facility.

“The Filipino government officials categorically contested that China Sandy Cay has confiscated or has now taken on Sandy Cay in the southern China Sea, and the statement that was published over the weekend about the Chinese state media as a” complete lie “as part of Beijing’s disinformation tactics was published as part of Beijing,” said Al Jazeaas Barnaby Lo, Manila in the Filipines.

“In order to prove this point, they recently showed the media such a youngest as Sunday morning, a mission for Sandy Cay from the Filipino Coast Guard and the Filipino Navy. Photos and videos of the Filipino flag, which is unfolded on two of the three sand rods, made of Sandy Cay in the southern China Sea,” said Lo.

Lo said that the Filipino civil servants confirmed that Chinese ships were present near the controversial riff during the mission on Sunday, but contested that the Filipino mission was “treated”, as China claimed.

The Chinese state media said on Saturday that the country’s coast guard had implemented the Maritime control over the Tiexian reef in mid -April. China’s state broadcaster CCTV said in the report that the Chinese coast guard had landed on Sandy Cay to carry out “sovereignty and jurisdiction” over the reef, an “inspection” and “video evidence of the illegal activities of to collect the Filipino side ”.

The broadcaster released a photo of five people who were dressed in black and stood on the uninhabited reef when a dark inflatable boat blew into the nearby water. Another shot showed four officers from the coast guard, who posed with a national flag on the white surface of the reef, in which what CCTV described as the “vow of sovereignty”.

According to reports, there is no sign that China has permanently occupied the reef.

Also on Monday, the Philippines and the US military started for three weeks annual exercises, which are referred to as “Balikan” or “shoulder -an shoulder” and for the first time contain an integrated simulation of air and rocket defense.

Beijing said that the maneuvers “undermine regional strategic stability” and accuse Manila “Consultation with countries outside the region”.

Al Jazeeras Katrina Yu, who reported on Beijing, said that the development of a Chinese flag of the coast guard on Sandy Cay was considerably with regard to the claim to the reef and timing before the annual military American military exercises.

“So it seems that the hiring of this Chinese flag on this reef sends a message not only to Manila, but also to Washington,” said Yu.