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Tentative trial dates set for four teens charged with murder | SaltWire #newsupdate #halifax #courtMANILA - The Philippines has sent three coast guard vessels to ensure the safety of a civilian flotilla sailing to a shoal in the South China Sea, where Manila and Beijing have been embroiled in heated stand-offs over competing claims.
Chinese state broadcaster CCTV has reported the Chinese Coast Guard recently held routine drills at the shoal.Atin Ito led a similar mission in December to deliver supplies to troops stationed at Second Thomas Shoal, but it cut short its journey due to what it described as shadowing and harassment by Chinese coast guard ships.
It was seized by China in 2012 after a standoff with the Philippines, and Beijing has since maintained a constant deployment of coast guard and fishing trawlers, some accused by Manila of being maritime militia."China's actions in the West Philippine Sea reveal not strength, but a glaring weakness," Rafaela David, a co-convenor of Atin Ito, said in a statement.
Atin Ito said it has installed symbolic buoys within the Philippine EEZ containing the words"WPS ATIN ITO".
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