Maritime Domain Awareness Flight of PCG and BFAR Near Luzon Coastline Encounters Chinese Warship Vessel

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The ๐๐ก๐ข๐ฅ๐ข๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ข๐ง๐ž ๐‚๐จ๐š๐ฌ๐ญ ๐†๐ฎ๐š๐ซ๐ (๐๐‚๐†) and the ๐๐ฎ๐ซ๐ž๐š๐ฎ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐…๐ข๐ฌ๐ก๐ž๐ซ๐ข๐ž๐ฌ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐€๐ช๐ฎ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐œ ๐‘๐ž๐ฌ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ๐œ๐ž๐ฌ (๐๐…๐€๐‘) were challenged by a ๐‚๐ก๐ข๐ง๐ž๐ฌ๐ž ๐๐š๐ฏ๐ฒ ๐ฐ๐š๐ซ๐ฌ๐ก๐ข๐ฉ while on a routine ๐Œ๐š๐ซ๐ข๐ญ๐ข๐ฆ๐ž ๐ƒ๐จ๐ฆ๐š๐ข๐ง ๐€๐ฐ๐š๐ซ๐ž๐ง๐ž๐ฌ๐ฌ (๐Œ๐ƒ๐€) flight near the ๐œ๐จ๐š๐ฌ๐ญ๐ฅ๐ข๐ง๐ž ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐‹๐ฎ๐ณ๐จ๐ง, despite being civilian government agencies.

According to ๐‚๐จ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐จ๐๐จ๐ซ๐ž ๐‰๐š๐ฒ ๐“๐š๐ซ๐ซ๐ข๐ž๐ฅ๐š, the Chinese vessel ordered them to leave the area immediately while carrying out the lawful MDA Flight. He emphasized that the mission was not intended to escalate or provoke any party, and stressed that the encounter occurred ๐๐š๐ง๐ ๐ž๐ซ๐จ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐œ๐ฅ๐จ๐ฌ๐ž ๐ญ๐จ ๐‹๐ฎ๐ณ๐จ๐งโ€™๐ฌ ๐œ๐จ๐š๐ฌ๐ญ๐ฅ๐ข๐ง๐ž.

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