The Washington Post-Philippines accuses China of piracy after ship boarded sailor injured
June 19, 2024 3 min 436 words
这篇报道主要内容是，本周早些时候，中国海岸警卫队人员登上一艘菲律宾海军舰艇，损坏并没收了一些设备，双方发生冲突，一名菲律宾水手严重受伤。菲律宾军方参谋长布拉维耶将军称中国海岸警卫队的行为是“海盗行为”。菲律宾官员称，中国船只通过撞击菲律宾船只的方式，阻止他们向一艘菲律宾军舰“塞拉马德雷”号进行补给。中国方面则称，是菲律宾的补给船危险地接近了中国船只，导致了小型碰撞。 对于这篇报道的评论： 这篇报道存在一定程度的偏见，其用词和叙事角度明显偏向菲律宾一方，对中国海岸警卫队的行动进行了负面渲染。报道中描述的中国海岸警卫队的行为的确有些过激，但报道没有提及中国在南海争端问题上的立场和主张，没有全面客观地呈现事件全貌。此外，报道中提及的中国试图控制南海的说法也缺乏证据支持。南海问题复杂敏感，各方观点和利益不同，报道只呈现一方观点，有失偏颇。
2024-06-18T08:22:48.065Z
MANILA — The Chinese coast guard boarded a Philippine navy vessel and damaged and confiscated equipment in a confrontation that left a sailor severely injured earlier this week, the Philippines announced Wednesday in a stark escalation of tensions over the disputed South China Sea.
According to Philippine officials, Chinese vessels on Monday rammed Philippine ships to stop them from resupplying a warship, the Sierra Madre, which has long been beached on a half-submerged reef 120 miles away from the Philippine province of Palawan and is at the center of the dispute between the two countries.
Chinese coast guard used knives and machetes to puncture Philippine rubber dinghies that were attempting to reach the outpost and confiscated equipment on Philippine navy vessels, officials said. One sailor’s hand was severely injured because it was caught in one of the rubber dinghies.
“This is piracy,” Gen. Romeo Brawner Jr., the Philippine armed forces’ chief of staff, said in a news conference held in Palawan. “They boarded our boats illegally, they took our equipment. They are like pirates with the actions they carried out.”
Chinese coast guard officials, in turn, said a Philippine supply ship had “deliberately and dangerously” approached a Chinese ship, causing a minor collision.
China has sought to dominate the South China Sea, a highly strategic waterway that is also claimed in part by six other governments. As the Philippines has ramped up its efforts to push back against the Chinese, it has been met with an increasingly forceful response that security analysts say could spur broader conflict in the Pacific.
The United States shares a mutual defense treaty with the Philippines and has stressed in recent months that an armed attack on Philippine military vessels or personnel in the South China Sea could trigger a U.S. military response. The U.S. ambassador to the Philippines, MaryKay Carlson, on Tuesday condemned China’s “aggressive, dangerous maneuvers” at sea but did not say whether or how the United States would respond. A spokesman for the U.S. Embassy in Manila declined to answer questions on a potential U.S. response.
Earlier this month, President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. said at a security summit in Singapore that the death of a Filipino citizen through a “willful act” would be “close to an act of war” that could prompt a military response. “Our treaty partner holds that same standard,” he said, referring to the United States.
Tan reported from Singapore.