Philippines backs USA plan to sail ship near Chinese island

A USA official said last week that navy ships would sail inside the 12-nautical mile zones that China claims as territory around islands it has constructed in the Spratly chain in the next two weeks. Following quite a while of civil argument in the USA government, there is now an agreement that the U.S. Naval force ought to send boats or flying machine inside of 12 nautical miles of the counterfeit islands to test China’s regional cases there, as per individuals acquainted with inward examinations.

The Philippines has expressed support for a reported USA plan to challenge China’s territorial claims by deploying a Navy ship close to a Chinese-built island in the disputed South China Sea.

A USA authority affirmed Sunday that a choice had been made to direct such watches however said it was indistinct when that may happen or where precisely. He says Chinese maneuvers in the South China Sea are more concerning to the Pentagon than the fight against the self-proclaimed Islamic State in Syria and Iraq (ISIS).

In May, Chunying was quoted by the Wall Street Journal as urging “relevant countries to refrain from taking risky and provocative action” off China’s territorial claims.

In a statement, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said that it is a “paramount concern” to all nations “to safeguard freedom of navigation and overflight in the South China Sea”.

Last September, House Armed Services Committee member Randy Forbes, R-Virginia, sent a letter signed by a bipartisan group of 29 House members calling the island-building project a threat to freedom of navigation and the peaceful worldwide order in place since the end of World War II.

Xi was defiant in his defense of China’s activities in the South China Sea, which include using a fleet of dredging ships to build a string of artificial islands atop various reefs in the region.