{"id":65397,"date":"2024-06-17T13:08:15","date_gmt":"2024-06-17T20:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=65397"},"modified":"2024-06-17T13:08:15","modified_gmt":"2024-06-17T20:08:15","slug":"u-s-support-for-the-philippines-in-the-south-china-sea-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=65397","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Support for the Philippines in the South China Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>06\/17\/2024 02:59 PM EDT<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Matthew Miller, Department Spokesperson<\/p>\n<p>The United States stands with its ally the Philippines and condemns the escalatory and irresponsible actions by the People\u2019s Republic of China (PRC) to deny the Philippines from lawfully delivering humanitarian supplies to service members stationed at the BRP Sierra Madre on June 16. \u00a0PRC vessels\u2019 dangerous and deliberate use of water cannons, ramming, blocking maneuvers, and towing damaged Philippine vessels, endangered the lives of Philippine service members, is reckless, and threatens regional peace and stability.<\/p>\n<p>This escalatory incident is the latest in a series of PRC provocations to impede critically needed supplies from reaching service members stationed at the BRP Sierra Madre. \u00a0On May 19, PRC Coast Guard harassed Philippine service members being medically evacuated and unlawful seized airdropped provisions. \u00a0In addition, on numerous occasions over the past year, they have used water cannons and dangerous maneuvers against Philippine routine supply missions.\u00a0 Beijing\u2019s actions reflect consistent disregard for the safety of Filipinos and for international law in the South China Sea.<\/p>\n<p>As unanimously decided by an international tribunal in July 2016, the PRC has no lawful maritime claims to the waters around Second Thomas Shoal \u2013 a low-tide feature clearly within the Philippines\u2019 exclusive economic zone.\u00a0 As provided under the 1982 Law of the Sea Convention, the decision is final and legally binding on the PRC and the Philippines.<\/p>\n<p>The United States reaffirms that Article IV of the 1951 United States-Philippines Mutual Defense Treaty extends to armed attacks on Philippine armed forces, public vessels, or aircraft \u2013 including those of its Coast Guard \u2013 anywhere in the South China Sea.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>06\/17\/2024 02:59 PM EDT &nbsp; Matthew&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65397"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65398,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65397\/revisions\/65398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}