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🇵🇭🇨🇳 Philippines sends ships to disputed atoll where China building 'artificial island' The Philippines said it has deployed ships to a disputed area in the South China Sea, where it accused China of building "an artificial island" in an escalating maritime row. The coast guard sent a ship "to monitor the supposed illegal activities of China, creating 'an artificial island'," the office of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr said in a statement, adding two other vessels were in rotational deployment in the area. Philippine Coast Guard spokesperson Commodore Jay Tarriela told a forum there had been "small-scale reclamation" of the Sabina Shoal, which Manila calls Escoda, and that China was "the most probable actor". #ThePhilippines #China @asianomics

🇰🇵🇰🇷 A bit of context to the artillery shelling by North Korea Not many people know, but North Korea and South Korea have a maritime border dispute. Blue line on the map depicts the Northern Limit Line (drawn at the end of Korean War by the UN and claimed by South Korea). Red line is the Military Demarcation Line (the border claimed by North Korea). The islands nearly encircled by the Military Demarcation Line are part of South Korea. North Korea doesn’t recognize the Northern Limit Line and wants the maritime border to be pushed south. That is why there were a lot of incidents near the islands, like bombardment of Yeonpyeong in 2010. However, in 2018 North Korea and South Korea adopted the Panmunjom Declaration which agreed that areas around the Northern Limit Line would be converted into a maritime peace zone in order to prevent accidental military clashes and guarantee safe fishing activities. The document didn’t prevent the DPRK from conducting shelling of the maritime areas as part of the artillery drills. However, the number of such incidents was reduced. Pyongyang last fired artillery shots into a maritime buffer zone in the East Sea on December 6, 2022. Last November, North Korea scraped the Panmunjom Declaration. It was a response to Seoul suspending part of it. North Korea's defense ministry said that it would restore all military measures it had halted under the deal with South Korea. It might mean that the continuous shelling is back. #NorthKorea #SouthKorea @asianomics

🇨🇳🇹🇼 Mainland Chinese coastguard keeps up pressure on Taiwan with patrols Beijing is continuing to carry out “regular patrols” in the waters near a Taiwanese-held island off the coast of mainland China ahead of president-elect Lai Ching-te’s inauguration later this month. Mainland China’s coastguard said units based in Fujian, the province nearest Taiwan, had carried out a “regular law enforcement” patrol in the waters near Kinmen on Friday. It was the sixth mission of its kind since an incident on February 14, in which two mainland fishermen died during a pursuit by Taiwan’s coastguard after their boat entered the Kinmen archipelago’s prohibited waters. #China #Taiwan @asianomics