Non-military encounters in South China Sea to intensify if Philippines implements maritime militia plan, say observers

as the nation’s defence secretary says there is currently no government budget for it The risk of close encounters between non-military forces in the disputed South China Sea is likely to intensify if the plan by the Philippines to deploy maritime militia is implemented, observers said.

Chen Xiangmiao, an associate researcher with the National Institute for South China Sea Studies, said the Philippine plan might be a reaction to tension in the region over the past year or two and domestic pressure to protect fishermen. In July, Vietnam’s laws on civil defence forces stating that “coastal or insular communes can organise squads or platoons of militia” took effect. The European Union estimated Vietnam has enlisted 8,000 fishing boats, and 1.22 per cent of its fishermen, or about 46,000, as militia.

With extensive legacy of “people’s war” and guerilla warfare, Beijing and Hanoi both have a long history of maritime militia and proficiency in mobilising fishermen and their boats in activities to assert claims in the disputed South China Sea. The United States views the Chinese maritime militia as playing “a major role in coercive activities to achieve China’s political goals without fighting”, according to a China military report by the Pentagon.

It's West Philipine Sea, not south china sea.

It’s time for true Filipinos to fight back against the CCP because that traitor of a Philippine president will not!!!

The fuck you doin' calling it South China Sea? That's the West Philippine Sea. Ano ba yan ABS

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