ASEAN foreign ministers urge peace, restraint amid South China Sea tensions

December 31, 2023 | 10:38am

This handout photo taken and released on Dec. 10, 2023 by the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) shows the M/L Kalayaan chartered supply boat (R) being towed after a Chinese coast guard ship unleashed water cannon onto the vessel, during a mission to deliver provisions at Second Thomas Shoal in disputed waters of the South China Sea. A Philippine boat was “rammed” by a Chinese coast guard ship during a resupply mission on December 10, the Philippine coast guard said, in the latest such confrontation in the disputed South China Sea. The Philippine Coast Guard also said a Chinese ship “water cannoned” three