Analyst: China ships down to 19 from 32 during water-cannon incident at Ayungin

By Vince Lopez, Rey E. Requejo and Charles Dantes

AFORMER US Air Force colonel and a security analyst said he is tracking 19 Chinese militia ships swarming the waters off Mischief Reef and Ayungin Shoal in the West Philippine Sea.

Raymond Powell, director of SeaLight at the Gordian Knot Center for National Security Innovation, said this number was down from a high of 32 during the Aug. 5 resupply mission

Report: China building runway on Triton Island that was thwarted by Chinese ships that fired water cannons at Philippine boats.

“Actually there were probably even more than 32, as indicated in this

Illegal fishers in WPS will be arrested—DFA

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