{"id":27442,"date":"2023-02-16T15:30:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-16T14:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/?p=27442"},"modified":"2023-02-16T13:14:25","modified_gmt":"2023-02-16T12:14:25","slug":"philippines-china-dazzles-manilas-coast-guard-with-lasers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/philippinen-china-blendet-manilas-coast-guard-mit-lasern\/","title":{"rendered":"Philippines: China dazzles Manila's Coast Guard with lasers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">On Monday, 6 February 2023, the Chinese Coast Guard vessel 5205 not only obstructed the Philippine coast guard boat \"Malapascua\" by manoeuvring dangerously, but also illuminated it with powerful laser beams. Some of the bridge crew were severely blinded in the process, requiring medical treatment. This was the first time that laser illumination had been used and is a first in the repertoire of Chinese units in the South China Sea. The \"Malapascua\" was on a voyage to Second Thomas Shoal, an underwater reef occupied by Philippine forces in the sector of the sea area illegally claimed by China.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_27445\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27445\" style=\"width: 537px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-27445\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/phi-paramil-cg-4401-pp-japanese-tubbataha-offz-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"537\" height=\"403\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/phi-paramil-cg-4401-pp-japanese-tubbataha-offz-300x225.jpg 300w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/phi-paramil-cg-4401-pp-japanese-tubbataha-offz-1024x769.jpg 1024w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/phi-paramil-cg-4401-pp-japanese-tubbataha-offz-768x576.jpg 768w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/phi-paramil-cg-4401-pp-japanese-tubbataha-offz-1536x1153.jpg 1536w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/phi-paramil-cg-4401-pp-japanese-tubbataha-offz-1080x811.jpg 1080w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/phi-paramil-cg-4401-pp-japanese-tubbataha-offz-750x563.jpg 750w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/phi-paramil-cg-4401-pp-japanese-tubbataha-offz-1140x856.jpg 1140w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/phi-paramil-cg-4401-pp-japanese-tubbataha-offz.jpg 1700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 537px) 100vw, 537px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-27445\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Philippine coast guard boat \"Tubbataha\", sister ship of the \"Malapascua\". Photo: Pilippine Navy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">In 2022 alone, the Philippines exchanged almost 200 diplomatic protest notes with China due to the aggressive behaviour of Chinese vessels in the disputed sea waters. Although the new Philippine president, Ferdinand Marcos Jr, only met with President Xi Jinping in Beijing in January, Chinese state forces continue to violate conventions in the South China Sea. Understandably, this is driving the Philippines further into the arms of the U.S. Coast Guard, which is in favour of closer cooperation between the two services. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">De-escalation looks different.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Das Schiff 5205 der chinesischen K\u00fcstenwache hatte am Montag, den 6. Februar 2023, das philippinische K\u00fcstenwachboot \"Malapascua\" nicht nur navigatorisch durch gef\u00e4hrliches Man\u00f6vrieren behindert, sondern auch mit starken Laserstrahlern angeleuchtet. Dabei wurden Teile der Br\u00fcckenbesatzung empfindlich geblendet, sodass sie medizinisch betreut werden mussten. Das Blenden mit Laserbeleuchtern erfolgte zum ersten Mal und ist ein Novum [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":27482,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"_oasis_task_priority":"2normal","footnotes":""},"categories":[45,486,42],"tags":[5256,96,518,5257,1640,2463,5258,460,628],"class_list":["post-27442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-marinen-aus-aller-welt-news","category-headlines","category-news","tag-blendung","tag-china","tag-coast-guard","tag-harassment","tag-kuestenwache","tag-laser","tag-manoevrieren","tag-philippinen","tag-suedchinesisches-meer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27442\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}