Around the drying of Scarborough in the southern Chinese Sea
The Popular Liberation Army has “expelled” the American destroyer Higgins, who entered “illegally in the territorial waters near Huangyan Dao”, in the southern Chinese Sea. These are the dryers of Scarborough, according to the international denomination, or Panatag, based on that given by the Philippines, for years engaged in the claim of the area in an aspra diatribe with Beijing.
He Tiecheng, a spokesman for the Chinese navy of the command of the southern theater, reported that the armed forces Mandarine “organized unity to trace, monitor, issue alarms and legally expel the US war ship, entered the territorial waters near Huangyan Dao without the authorization of the Chinese government”. The US actions, reads a note, “have seriously violated the sovereignty and security of China, undermined peace and stability in the southern Chinese Sea and violated international law and the fundamental rules that regulate international relations”.
Finally, the spokesman recalled that “the naval forces of the command of the southern theater remain in a state of maximum alert at all times to firmly defend sovereignty and national security, as well as peace and stability in the region”.
