(Manila Composite Electric) Although eight Philippine soldiers were injured in the Chinese and Philippines in the South China Sea in the South China Sea, one of them was injured and one of them was cut off.
Bellsin, a spokesman for the Presidential Palace of the Philippines on Friday (June 21) at the media briefing, was asked whether the Philippine party would conflict with China to ask the United States to fulfill the United States and Philippines joint defense treaty: "We are not ready to classify this matter as armed attack. "
According to this treaty, in the Pacific waters, if the territory and military, ships or planes are attacked by the US -Philippine territory, the army, ships or aircraft, the two countries will take common military operations to respond.Recently, due to the continuous heating up in the South China Sea issue, the United States has repeatedly reiterated that the United States and the Philippine joint defense treaty have been applied to the "anywhere in the South China Sea" for armed attacks on the Philippine Coast Guard.
However, for the collision of the disputed waters of the South China Sea on Monday, the two Philippine soldiers were injured in the South China Sea's disputed waters on Monday, Besa Min said that this may be "misunderstanding or accident.", Ax et al., There are no other "excessive" weapons.
He said that the Philippine National Maritime Council has suggested to President President President President President, and continues and regularly gives the Madele Mountain rotation staff and give up to the Ayunjin Reef (China -called Renai Reef).
A spokesman for the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Lin Jian, emphasized the report of the reporter's question at a regular press conference on Friday that the root cause of the current situation is that the Philippines violated the promise and refused to drag the warships of the illegal "beach" of Renai Reef.And insist on transporting building materials attempts to reinforce.
He said: "This is the iron certificate of the Filipino's long -term infringement of China in South China./P>
After the collision of the Chinese and Philippine vessels on Monday, the two countries pointed out that each other must be responsible for the incident.The Philippine side criticized the Chinese side in the Philippines to perform the "illegal and aggressive behavior" when the Filipino personnel performed a supply mission; China refuted that the Philippine Fang "deliberately dangerous to the normal navigation ship of China in an unprofessional way", which led to rubbing.China emphasized that the Chinese Maritime Police's law enforcement was restrained at the time and said that they did not take measures directly to the Filipino staff.
On the occasion of the words of both sides of China and the Philippines, a commercial federation of the Filipino Chamber of Commerce issued a statement on Friday to condemn the continuous harassment of the Philippine Armed Forces, the Coast Guard and the Philippines who only seek livelihoods.
They did not mention China in the statement, but condemned in the tense situation in the South China Sea, which was obviously targeted at China.They said: "We call on everyone to unite, solve problems in non -violent ways, and respect our rights as a peaceful country."
