Tit for tat to defend Ayungin against ChinaMatch China with water cannon. Those are among many creative ways to defend resupply missions to Philippine Marines in Ayungin Shoal. They were hosed by the China Coast Guard and they fired back using water cannons as well. “Its objective is to starve our Marines into leaving Ayungin,” international maritime lawyer Jay Batongbacal, PhD, told Sapol-dwIZ Saturday. In 2013 CCG combat helicopters repeatedly splashed seawater into Filipino rubber and wooden boats approaching Ayungin.

Source: Philippine Star November 26, 2021 03:52 UTC