Chinese Coast Guard drives Filipino fishermen away from disputed shoal

Joely Saligan, a Filipino fishing boat captain, protests on Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2024, the Chinese coast guard’s aggression in the disputed South China Sea, where he asserted that Chinese officers drove him and his men away from a disputed shoal and ordered them to dump their catch in the sea. The face-to-face confrontation on January 12, which Saligan and his men reported to Manila’s coast guard, after returning from the voyage, is testing efforts by China and the Philippines to deescalate tensions around a potential Asian flashpoint.

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