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Manila has published videos showing a Philippine boat being pummeled by Chinese water cannons as it attempted to carry out the U.S. defense treaty ally’s latest routine supply mission to a contentious South China Sea military outpost. On their way to deliver fresh supplies and troops to the warship-turned-outpost BRP Sierra Madre at Second Thomas Shoal early Saturday morning, supply boat Unaizah May 4 and her two coast guard escorts were met by a blockading force of Chinese paramilitary and coast guard vessels. Beijing claims sovereignty over Second Thomas Shoal, as it does most of the South China Sea, though…
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