
China says its coastguard used a water cannon in an effort to expel a Philippine government vessel that entered waters of the disputed Scarborough Shoal in Beijing’s latest confrontation with Manila in the disputed South China Sea.China Coast Guard spokesman Liu Dejun said in a statement on Friday afternoon that Philippine vessel 3006 had “ignored repeated warnings and insistently intruded” into Chinese waters near the strategic shoal.In response, China Coast Guard had implemented standard...