️🇺🇸🇵🇭🇨🇳 The US condemned what it called "dangerous blockade" and other maneuvers by China's Coast Guard and PLA Navy that threatened to collide with a Philippine vessel during a resupply mission to Second Thomas Shoal on September 24.

️🇺🇸🇵🇭🇨🇳 The US condemned what it called "dangerous blockade" and other maneuvers by China's Coast Guard and PLA Navy that threatened to collide with a Philippine vessel during a resupply mission to Second Thomas Shoal on September 24.

US Ambassador to the Philippines Lee Lipton said Washington stood by its Philippine ally and called on Chinese forces to stop what he described as escalation tactics that threaten freedom of navigation in the Indo-Pacific.