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Without U.S., “China Will Consider Us Meat On The Table”

The China Philippines spat took a new twist recently, when the Chinese used overwhelming force to harass and evict the BRP Teresa Magbanua, a multi-role Philippines Coast Guard ship, from the Sabina or Escoda Shoal, where it was stationed since April following China’s attempt to stake claim to the shoal. Barely 75 km from the islands of Palawan, the largest province of the Philippines, an Archipelagic nation, the Sabina shoal is clearly well within well within the territorial jurisdiction of the Philippines. But not only did over 60 Chinese ships blockade the BRP Teresa Magbanua, preventing it from being resupplied, it was also rammed several times by a much larger Chinese Coast Guard vessel, causing substantial damage. Separately, the Chinese announced that as part of a deal, they had “allowed” the Philippines to resupply the BRP Sierra Madre, a landing vessel of the Philippines Navy which had been deliberately run aground on the second Thomas Shoal in the Spratly Islands in 1999, to stake claim to the archipelago, parts of which are also claimed by China, Malaysia, Taiwan and Brunei. The Philippines and Chinese Coast guards have had several run-ins over Manila’s attempts to resupply the marines stationed on the Sierra Madre. This “deal” is “separate from what happened to the Teresa Magbanua,” explains Prof Renato Cruz De Castro, Distinguished Professor at the International Studies department of De La Salle University in Manila. Speaking to The Gist on the sidelines of the 2024 edition of the Indo-Pacific Regional Dialogue held at the sprawling Manekshaw Centre Auditorium in Delhi Cantonment October 3-5, Prof. Castro refused to mince his words as he categorically blamed Beijing for its aggressive posturing in the South China Sea, and explained why the Philippines was among the few countries in the region which was not afraid to push back against the increasing belligerence of the much larger People’s Republic of China. Watch the full episode to find out.