Live broadcast! Philippine vessels rammed the Chinese maritime police ship's railings with water cannons, and the Philippine crew waved white flags to surrender
China Coast Guard released on June 16 a video of the confrontation between China and the Philippines at Huangyan Island. It can be seen that there were at least five small Philippine vessels in the front line. The Chinese coast guard first called for the vessels to leave, then implemented route control. However, the Filipinos did not back down, continuing to provoke, and thus the Chinese side upgraded its control measures.
Among them, the small boat numbered 3014 showed the most arrogance. They had installed a ramming horn on the bow of their vessel, and they recklessly collided with other ships at sea, and received the most "attention" from the Chinese coast guard's water cannons. However, even under the water cannon attacks, they still directly rammed into the Chinese coast guard's large ship, and it could be clearly heard in the video the sound of metal rubbing against each other, and it could also be seen that their ramming horn collapsed the railings on the side of the Chinese coast guard's ship.
Naturally, the Chinese would not easily let go of the provocateurs. During the subsequent standoff, the Chinese water cannons continuously sprayed the Philippine vessel, apparently shattering the glass on the side of the Philippine vessel's bridge. The Philippine vessel could not withstand it anymore, so the crew came out of the bridge and waved a white towel toward the Chinese coast guard ship, indicating "surrendering with a white flag".
This explains why the Filipinos remained unusually silent for a day, probably because they felt it was embarrassing for the crew to surrender, and it was not conducive to their nationalist narrative, so they deliberately downplayed this incident.
Original: www.toutiao.com/article/1843416731637772/
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