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China’s harassment of PH Coast Guard using laser ‘provocative, unsafe,’ says US
CHINA’S harassment of a Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) vessel using a “military-grade” laser is “provocative and unsafe,” the United States said on Tuesday, February 14.
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The PCG reported that a Chinese Coast Guard ship directed a “militarygrade” laser at one of its vessels as it was supporting a Philippine Navy rotation and resupply mission in Ayungin Shoal, also called Second Thomas Shoal, in the West Philippine Sea on February 6.
The laser caused temporary blindness to the PCG crew members.
“The PRC’s (People’s Republic of China) conduct was provocative and unsafe,
