March 31, 2014
US accuses China of provoking Philippines - Straits Times
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WASHINGTON (AFP) - The United States criticised China as provocative Monday after its coast guard tried to block a Philippine vessel that was rotating troops in the tense South China Sea.
The attempted Chinese blockade, which led to a two-hour standoff with the Philippine ship, is "a provocative and destabilizing action," State Department deputy spokeswoman Marie Harf told reporters.
Harf said that the Philippines had permission to resupply troops to the remote reef, the Second Thomas Shoal, because it has kept a naval presence there since before a 2002 declaration of conduct in the South China Sea.
"As a treaty ally of the Republic of the Philippines, the United States urges China to refrain from further provocative behavior by allowing the Philippines to continue to maintain its presence at Second Thomas Shoal," she said.
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