Newly released Philippine Coast Guard videos show Chinese coast guard ships remaining in South China Sea waters within Manila’s exclusive economic zone west of Luzon, where they have lingered for the past month, PCG officials said. In video footage taken from a PCG airplane over the weekend and released on Monday, several Chinese coast guard ships were tracked sailing in waters near Manila-claimed Scarborough Shoal, known as Bajo de Masinloc in the Philippines, according to Filipino officials.
On Sunday, two China Coast Guard ships – CCG 3301 and CCG 3104 – were also tracked only 34 nautical miles off the coast of Pangasinan, a province on the west coast of Luzon, the main island in the northern Philippines.