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WATER CANNONING. Chinese Coast Guard vessels fire water cannons at Philippine vessel Unaizah May 4 on a resupply mission at Second Thomas Shoal in the South China Sea, March 5, 2024.
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Australia, Canada, Estonia, Germany, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, New Zealand, Romania, Slovenia, United Kingdom, and the US join the Philippines in asserting that the award is 'final, legally binding, and definitive'
MANILA, Philippines – The Philippines and 13 countries called on China to abide by the 2016 Arbitral Award, a decade since it was handed down and even as Beijing refuses to acknowledge its validity.
