A Chinese ship blocked and fired a water cannon at a Philippine military supply boat. The incident is the latest flare-up in the long-seething territorial conflicts in the disputed South China Sea Read more:
#LGZ02 : Philippine authorities to address China Coast Guard firing water cannon at Philippine vessel / Photo: AFP
It was later renamed the USS Harnett County and deployed during the Vietnam War, where it was used as a helicopter gunship base, according to the United States Naval Institute.Why is it stuck on a reef? Beijing has turned Mischief Reef and other reefs and outcrops into artificial, militarised islands to assert its claims in the waters.
They also regularly attempt to disrupt re-supply operations to the tiny Philippine garrison on Second Thomas Shoal, according to Manila.
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