{"id":69216,"date":"2024-06-26T20:46:05","date_gmt":"2024-06-26T20:46:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2024\/06\/26\/philippines-seeking-call-with-china-over-emerging-sierra-madre-crisis\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T16:16:33","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T16:16:33","slug":"philippines-seeking-call-with-china-over-emerging-sierra-madre-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/global\/asia-pacific\/2024\/06\/26\/philippines-seeking-call-with-china-over-emerging-sierra-madre-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Philippines seeking call with China over emerging Sierra Madre crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Philippines is seeking to schedule a call with Beijing \u201cvery soon\u201d amid an emerging crisis in the South China Sea, according to the Southeast Asia country\u2019s ambassador to the U.S.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At issue is the Sierra Madre, a rusting World War II-era ship run aground on a reef known as the Second Thomas Shoal. The Philippines uses the ship as an outpost and resupplies its soldiers there about once a month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">China considers the area part of its rightful territory \u2014 despite a 2016 ruling by the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea to the contrary. The Chinese Coast Guard has <a href=\"https:\/\/amti.csis.org\/tracking-tensions-at-second-thomas-shoal\/\" target=\"_blank\">long harassed Filipino ships<\/a> resupplying the post but has recently grown more violent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Those confrontations escalated on June 17, when Chinese sailors boarded Filipino vessels, jettisoned equipment and injured eight personnel, according to Manila. One lost his thumb, prompting a hospital visit from President Ferdinand Marcos jr, who only weeks earlier warned that he would consider the death of a Filipino citizen \u201cvery close\u201d to an act of war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Such a decision could invoke a mutual defense treaty with Washington and pull American into the conflict. When asked about that possibility in early June, U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said America\u2019s commitment to the treaty was \u201cironclad\u201d but declined to comment further.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since the escalation, the Philippines Department of Foreign Affairs has tried to schedule a call with counterparts in China, said Ambassador Jose Manuel Romualdez, speaking with reporters at the embassy in Washington.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That call could occur by early July, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe have tried all sorts of ways to be able to bring down the level of tension,\u201d he said. \u201cObviously, most of [those] have not worked and so we feel that perhaps a frank, clear discussion &#8230; with the Chinese is probably the best way to go.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Romualdez also confirmed reporting that the Philippines has reinforced the Sierra Madre \u2014 a concern for China, which objects to any attempts to harden the fragile site. That said, the work done so far has been to improve \u201cliving conditions\u201d for the soldiers stationed there, the ambassador said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAs to what we will do down the road if, if that ship starts to fall apart, we don\u2019t know,\u201d said Romualdez. \u201cBut again, we have no intention of abandoning\u201d it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Austin\u2019s outreach<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Wednesday, Austin spoke over the phone with his counterpart in Manila. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defense.gov\/News\/Releases\/Release\/Article\/3818005\/readout-of-secretary-of-defense-lloyd-j-austin-iiis-call-with-philippine-secret\/\">According to a Pentagon readout of the call<\/a>, Austin \u201creaffirmed\u201d America\u2019s support for the Philippines amid the standoff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the last year, the two countries have deepened their security relationship. America now has access to four new potential military sites in the Philippines\u2019 north, and a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/training-sim\/2024\/06\/04\/us-philippines-expand-exercise-to-territorial-edges-amid-tension-with-china\/\" target=\"_blank\">military exercise hosted in the country known as \u201cBalikitan\u201d<\/a> \u2014 or \u201cshoulder to shoulder\u201d in Tagalog \u2014 is larger than ever. In April, America deployed a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/land\/2024\/04\/16\/us-army-deploys-midrange-missile-for-first-time-in-philippines\/\" target=\"_blank\">mid-range missile system to the Philippines for the first time<\/a>, though officials in both countries haven\u2019t specified where it is now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Despite objections in Beijing, which considers each of these steps a provocation, the Philippines maintains that the new security agreement is defensive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt is not going to be used for any kind of offensive situation,\u201d Romualdez said, \u201cunless, of course, the situation calls for it\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In April, the U.S. passed a massive new round of extra security funding, including $4 billion for the Indo-Pacific. Half of that was in long-term arms sales subsidized by the U.S. and another half was to replace Pentagon stocks sent directly to other countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Most of that money is headed for Taiwan, but the Philippines <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/global\/asia-pacific\/2024\/06\/06\/after-singapore-summit-a-question-of-us-priorities-in-asias-hot-zone\/\" target=\"_blank\">will likely get a share<\/a>. Romualdez said Manila is hoping for a portion of the longer-term Foreign Military Financing and didn\u2019t specify whether his country was seeking a part of the other funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cA situation like this calls for decisive action on our part \u2014 on all our parts,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manila has sought to calm ties with Beijing after Chinese sailors escalated a standoff near a Filipino outpost this 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