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PCG Challenges Chinese Research Vessel Operating Near Cagayan Waters The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG), utilizing the Canada’s Dark Vessel Detection program, detected the Chinese Research Vessel (CRV) Tan Suo Er Hao approaching within approximately 19 nautical miles off the coast of Cagayan province in northern Luzon. In response, PCG Commandant Admiral Ronnie Gil Gavan immediately ordered this morning the deployment of a PCG Islander aircraft to conduct a Maritime Domain Awareness (MDA) flight. The operation aimed to challenge the vessel’s presence, verify whether it was conducting marine scientific research without prior consent from the Philippine government – in potential violation of Philippine Maritime Zones Act and the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) – and assert the Philippines’ sovereign rights within its Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ). The CRV Tan Suo Er Hao, an 87.25-meter advanced deep-sea scientific research vessel operated by the Institute of Deep-sea Science and Engineering under the Chinese Academy of Sciences, serves as a mothership for manned and unmanned deep-sea submersibles and supports comprehensive deep-sea operations. Monitoring indicated that the vessel departed from Hainan province in China earlier this month and transited through the western Philippine EEZ. During the MDA flight, the PCG aircraft sighted the CRV heading eastward at coordinates Latitude 18°34.021′ N, Longitude 123°17.042′ E, approximately 55.78 nautical miles east of Santa Ana, Cagayan. The PCG pilot issued multiple radio challenges to the vessel, inquiring about its intentions and reminding it of the requirement for prior consent for marine scientific research in Philippine waters. The CRV Tan Suo Er Hao did not respond to any of the radio calls. The Philippine Coast Guard remains vigilant in protecting the country’s maritime domain and will continue to monitor and challenge unauthorized activities within the Philippine EEZ in accordance with the directive of President Ferdinand Marcos, Jr of upholding national sovereignty and maritime laws.

Video of how China’s trawlers are electrocuting the Persian Gulf & Iran's coast to death. Their industrial scale Pulse fishing kills everything—fish, babies, coral- leaving a dead ocean. These pirates need to be stopped before they leave the ocean lifeless

During the worst of the days of the hunger crisis in Gaza in the past six months, Hamas deliberately hid literal tons of infant formula and nutritional shakes for children by storing them in clandestine warehouses belonging to the Gaza Ministry of Health. The goal, as I said then, was to worsen the hunger crisis and initiate a disaster as part of the terror group’s famine narrative in a desperate effort to stop Israel’s onslaught against Gaza and force the return of the UN’s aid distribution mechanism, and away from the controversial Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF). Now, activists in the Strip are documenting the waste and deliberate disposal of tons of infant formula, nutritional children’s shake, and children’s powdered milk, which Hamas had hoarded away, given the saturation of the coastal enclave with humanitarian aid after the ceasefire two months ago. When countless other Palestinian activists and I from Gaza said this back in July, August, and September, we were villainized, attacked, threatened, and made into pariahs by the “pro-Palestine” industrial complex and activist mafias, even though for Gazans, the evidence was so clearly apparent before our eyes. What those in the West continue to fail to understand is that there is no being pro-Palestine without also having a serious vigilance against Hamas’s continued manipulation of international public opinion to hide behind the Strip's civilian population's suffering, something that the terrorist organization’s own actions have led to and created. Never allow yourself to be a useful idiot in Hamas’s propaganda. You can have compassion for the real suffering of the Palestinian civilians of Gaza, and demand Israeli action to facilitate aid entry into the coastal enclave, while still holding Hamas accountable for its part in causing a hunger and starvation crisis in the first place.