{"id":549,"date":"2026-05-31T07:10:26","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T07:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=549"},"modified":"2026-05-31T07:10:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T07:10:26","slug":"china-patrols-scarborough-shoal-after-philippines-warns-of-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=549","title":{"rendered":"China patrols Scarborough Shoal after Philippines warns of threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Summary<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>BEIJING, May 31 (Reuters) &#8211; China&#8217;s military \u200band coast guard said they carried out patrols near Scarborough Shoal in the South \u200cChina Sea on Sunday, a day after the Philippine defence minister said Manila remained under threat from Beijing despite a recent easing in U.S.-China tensions.<\/div>\n<div>Scarborough Shoal is one of Asia&#8217;s most contested maritime features and has become a frequent flashpoint \u200bbetween China and the Philippines over sovereignty and fishing rights.<\/div>\n<div>The People&#8217;s Liberation Army&#8217;s Southern Theatre \u200bCommand said in a statement on the WeChat platform that its naval and \u2060air units carried out combat readiness patrols in the &#8220;territorial sea and airspace&#8221; of the atoll and its \u200bsurrounding areas.<\/div>\n<div>&#8220;Such patrols serve as an effective countermeasure to cope with all sorts of rights violation and \u200bprovocative acts,&#8221; the command said.<\/div>\n<div>China&#8217;s coast guard said in a separate statement it conducted law enforcement patrols near the Scarborough Shoal, adding that since this month it had dealt with ships engaged in &#8220;illegal rights-violation activities in accordance with laws \u200band regulations,&#8221; without elaborating.<\/div>\n<div>The Philippine embassy in Beijing did not immediately respond to an emailed request for \u200bcomment.<\/div>\n<h2>&#8216;SEVERE THREAT&#8217;<\/h2>\n<div>The patrols took place as defence ministers, military chiefs and policymakers from the Asia-Pacific region and beyond gathered \u200cin \u2060Singapore for the Shangri-La Dialogue, Asia&#8217;s premier defence forum.<\/div>\n<div>Speaking to Reuters on the sidelines of the summit, Philippine Defence Secretary Gilberto Teodoro said the Philippines remains under &#8220;severe threat&#8221; from China both territory-wise and politically, despite a recent thaw in U.S.-China tensions following the summit between Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping earlier this \u200bmonth.<\/div>\n<div>&#8220;We have no choice \u200bbut really to be \u2060resilient and to stand up against Chinese aggression,&#8221; he said.<\/div>\n<div>The Philippines and China have been locked in repeated maritime standoffs in the South China Sea in \u200brecent years, at times resulting in collisions between vessels and injuries to \u200bpersonnel.<\/div>\n<div>China claims sovereignty \u2060over almost the entire South China Sea via a &#8220;nine-dash line&#8221; on its maps that cuts into the exclusive economic zones of the Philippines, Brunei, Malaysia, Vietnam and Indonesia.<\/div>\n<div>Disputes over dozens of islands and features have \u2060festered for \u200bdecades. Taiwan&#8217;s claims to features in the South China Sea \u200bare broadly similar to China&#8217;s.<\/div>\n<div>In 2016, the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague ruled that China&#8217;s claims were not supported by \u200binternational law, a decision that Beijing rejects.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=547\">SoftBank to build up AI data centres in France with major investment<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=545\">New Jersey governor links rising tension around immigrant detention center to out-of-state troublemakers<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=543\">Japan rejects \u2018new militarism\u2019, accuses China of rapidly arming<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China&#8217;s military \u200band coast guard said they carried out patrols near Scarborough Shoal in the South \u200cChina Sea on Sunday, a day after the Philippine defence minister said Manila remained under threat from Beijing despite a recent easing in U.S.-China tensions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":548,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[8],"class_list":["post-549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-china"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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