The Chinese Navy helicopter flies within 10 meters from the Philippine patrol over disputable shallows

AND Chinese Navy On Tuesday, the helicopter flew within 10 meters (3 meters) from the Philippine Patrol Planes in the controversial area of ​​the South Chinese Sea, which encouraged the Philippine pilot to warn the radio: “You fly too close, you are very dangerous.”

The Chinese helicopter was trying to force the Cessna caravan turbopropa that belonged to the Philippine Fisheries and Water Research Office from what China claims to be airspace over hot disputed Scarborough Shoal from the northwestern Filipin.

American flies shared patrols with the Philippines near the Shoal region guarded by China

Associated Press and other invited foreign media on the plane witnessed a tense 30-minute opposition, while the Philippine plane pressed its patrol at a low height around Scarboroug with a Chinese Navy helicopter hovering above it or flying left in cloudy weather.

“Fly too close, you are very dangerous and endanger the lives of our crew and passengers,” the Philippine pilot told the Chinese Navy helicopter at one point. “Keep further and distance your planes from us, violate the security standard set up by FAA and ICAO.”

The pilot was related to the standard distance between the aircraft required US Air Force Administration and the international organization of civil aviation to prevent air disaster.

There were no signs that the Philippine plane had to change its planned path and altitude to avoid the collision.

The Filipin Coast Guard and Fisheries Biro said in a statement that they were still “dedicated to the claim of our sovereignty, sovereign rights and maritime jurisdiction in the Western Philippine Sea, despite the aggressive and escalator actions of China.”

They headed to the Philippine name to parts of water in the southern Chinese sea closer to the West coast of the Philippines.

The Chinese army, referring to Scarborough Shoal with its Chinese name, said the plane “was” illegally entered the airspace of the Chinese Island Huangyan without the approval of the Chinese government. “

The Chinese South Theater Command organized navy and air forces to follow and warn the plane, said older Colonel Tian Junli, a commander of the Command, in a written statement published online.

The Philippines were “confused correctly and wrongly and spread false narratives,” the statement said.

The meeting on Tuesday, which is expected to protest the Philippine government, is the last point in the decades of territorial opposition in one of the most prominent trade routes in the world, which includes China, Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunei and Taiwan.

Conflicts on the open sea intensified between Chinese and The Philippine coastal guards In the last two years in Scarborough and another Thomas Shoal, where the grounded ship of the Philippine Navy has served as a military territorial path since 1999, but has been closely surrounded by a Chinese coastal guard, navy and other ships since then.

China arranged a naval force around Scarboroug after tense opposition to the 2012 Philippine ships.

Next year, Philippines brought disputes with China to international arbitration. The Decision on the Arbitration Council supported in 2016 canceled the Chinese expansive claim in the South Chinese Sea on the basis of the UN Convention on Sea Law.

China, the signer of Unclos like the Philippines, refused to participate in the arbitration, rejected her outcome and continued to defy him.

Faced with Chinese military power, Filipina under Ferdinand President Marcos Jr. They resorted to a campaign of shame – incorporating the Philippine and foreign journalists into their sea and air patrols in an effort to expose Beijing all more athective actions.

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Philippines also strengthen their security alliances with the United States, Japan, Australia, France, Canada, the European Union and other Western countries to increase their external defense.

The United States is said to be obliged to defend the Philippines, the oldest ally of the contract in Asia, if the Philippine forces, ships and aircraft enter the armed attack, including in the southern China Sea. China warned the US and its allies not to interfere with what it calls purely Asian dispute.