INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
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...