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Chinese frigate runs aground in Half Moon Shoal
Topic Started: Jul 13 2012, 02:15 PM (12,606 Views)
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http://www.smh.com.au/world/embarrassment-...0713-220r8.html

A Chinese warship has run aground while patrolling contested waters adjacent to the Philippines in the South China Sea.
The frigate pinned itself to a reef last night at Half Moon Shoal, on the south-eastern edge of the Spratly Islands, and remains "thoroughly stuck", according to Western diplomatic sources shortly after midday local time, or 2pm AEST.
Salvage operations could be diplomatically challenging, given the vessel appears to have run aground within 200 kilometres of the Philippines coast, which is squarely within what Manila claims to be its Exclusive Economic Zone.
The stricken People's Liberation Army Navy vessel, believed to be No. 560, a Jianghu-class frigate, has in the past been involved in aggressively discouraging Filipino fishing boats from the area.
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The accident could not have come at a more embarrassing moment for the Chinese leadership, who have been pressing territorial claims and flexing the country's muscle ahead of a leadership transition later this year.
Today's meeting of the Association of South-East Asian Nations in Cambodia ended in disarray, without a code of conduct for resolving conflicts in the South China Sea, following robust intervention from China.
Also this week, China yesterday dispatched one of its largest-ever fishing expeditions from Hainan Island to another disputed archipelago in the South China Sea.
Earlier in the week, PLA generals and top foreign policy advisers urged China to do more to press its claims.
Cui Liru, president of the China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations, a leading think tank that reports to the main intelligence department, said Beijing had previously focused too much on seeking common ground with its neighbours and putting disputes on the shelf.
"In the foreseeable future, say at least in five years, the Asia-Pacific region will still be showing every feature of a transitional period, which is characterised by a certain level of chaos," he said.

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well, obserbahin muna natin at baka ginagaya nila yung ginawa natin ng BRP Sierra madre at pinarking yung barko bilang stationary base.

I wonder which of the 2 - was it a planned grounding ??? or an accidental grounding ???
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This is very close to Palawan. Too close. Are they trying to steal another shoal? We should investigate asap and make a big fuzz of their blunder.
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Embarassing . . . assuming it happened by 'accident'. They will use this as an excuse to send ships and planes into our waters. They will send them to 'rescue' that vessel and what will we do? This is not a positive development.

Ganda ng timing.
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pachador
Jul 13 2012, 02:34 PM
well, obserbahin muna natin at baka ginagaya nila yung ginawa natin ng BRP Sierra madre at pinarking yung barko bilang stationary base.

  I wonder which of the 2 - was it a planned grounding ??? or an accidental grounding ???


Could be but kind of expensive to intentionally ground a frigate. I maybe suspicious of a CMS ship but a frigate to sacrifice could be expensive. Maybe this frigate was trying to intimidate our fishermen again and na karma.
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this can become even much worse than the scarborough shoal crisis . this would be a bad escalation, very very bad :fire: :snipemo: :pistols:

looks like 70 miles from palawan lang ang half-moon shoal ...delikado ito
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It is between Mischief and Palawan.
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If it's hull number 560 then it's a Jianghu-V (as in there are Jianghu-Is/IIs/IIIs/IVs). A 103 meter long ship. A corvette.

It's supposed to have a 200-man crew.
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Salvage operations could be diplomatically challenging, given the vessel appears to have run aground within 200 kilometres of the Philippines coast, which is squarely within what Manila claims to be its Exclusive Economic Zone.


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The stricken People's Liberation Army Navy vessel, believed to be No. 560, a Jianghu-class frigate, has in the past been involved in aggressively discouraging Filipino fishing boats from the area.

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this should send a strong message to the World that China in not sincere on what it said.

kinakatakot ko lang baga gawin nila itong dahilan para ankinin ung shoal na un
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