China-Philippines tension escalates amid row over Marcos Jr’s Taiwan remark: Water cannon fired at Philippine ship

Days after President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. said that the Philippines “cannot stay out” if conflict erupts in the Taiwan Strait, tensions in the region intensified after a Chinese coast guard vessel targeted a Philippine ship with a water cannon near a disputed shoal in the South China Sea.

China-Philippines tension escalates amid row over Marcos Jr’s Taiwan remark: Water cannon fired at Philippine ship
Days after President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. said that the Philippines “cannot stay out” if conflict erupts in the Taiwan Strait, tensions in the region intensified after a Chinese coast guard vessel targeted a Philippine ship with a water cannon near a disputed shoal in the South China Sea.