{"id":207995,"date":"2025-10-12T14:21:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T14:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/207995\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T14:21:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T14:21:07","slug":"philippines-says-chinese-ship-deliberately-rammed-government-boat-in-south-china-sea-asia-pacific","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/207995\/","title":{"rendered":"Philippines says Chinese ship \u2018deliberately rammed\u2019 government boat in South China Sea | Asia Pacific"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">A Chinese ship \u201cdeliberately rammed\u201d a Philippine government vessel anchored near an island in a disputed part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/south-china-sea\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">South China Sea<\/a>, Manila\u2019s coast guard said on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Confrontations between Philippine and Chinese vessels occur frequently in the South <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/china\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">China<\/a> Sea, which Beijing claims nearly in its entirety despite an international ruling that the claim has no legal basis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/philippines\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Philippines<\/a> said a Chinese coast guard ship \u201cfired its water cannon\u201d at the BRP Datu Pagbuaya, a vessel belonging to Manila\u2019s fisheries bureau, at 9.15am on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cJust three minutes later \u2026 the same [Chinese] vessel deliberately rammed the stern\u201d of the Philippine boat, \u201ccausing minor structural damage but no injuries to the crew\u201d, the statement said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cDespite these bullying tactics and aggressive actions \u2026 we will not be intimidated or driven away.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Beijing blamed the Philippines for the collision. Liu Dejun, a Chinese coast guard spokesperson, said the Philippine ship \u201cignored repeated stern warnings from the Chinese side, and dangerously approached\u201d the other ship.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Manila\u2019s coast guard said the incident took place near Thitu Island, part of the Spratly island group where Beijing has sought to assert its sovereignty claims for years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Chinese ship \u201cdeliberately rammed\u201d a Philippine government vessel anchored near an island in a disputed part of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":207996,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-207995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207995\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}