Representatives from the Philippines reported last week that Chinese beach guard ships had side-swiped a Manila fishing commission boat on the way to provide supplies to Filipino fishermen around the Scarborough Shoal, a claim that received international condemnation.
Four Spanish ships attempted to enter waters that Beijing called Huangyan Island, which the Chinese Coast Guard claimed were its own, in the area of Scarborough Shoal.
China submitted navigational charts to the UN earlier this month that it claimed backs up its claims to the waters, which a 2016 international court determined were a long-established fishing ground for fishermen of some nationalities.
Following the figures ‘ distribution, a spokesperson for the Philippines ‘ National Maritime Council, said China’s states were false and unlawful.
China’s claim was unsupported by the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea ( UNCLOS), and the 2016 tribunal found that its blockade of the Scarborough Shoal was against international law.
Beijing has not recognised the selection.
There has never been a formalized system of autonomy over the Scarborough Shoal.
Some countries in the group insist that the code of conduct for the corporate waterway be based on UNCLOS, while the Philippines and other Association of Southeast Asian Nations members have spent years negotiating it with Beijing.
EEZs confer jurisdiction to the southern country over living and nonliving resources on the sea floor and in the water.  ,