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House leaders condemn latest water cannon attack on PCG vessel

Philippine News Agency

By Jose Cielito Reganit
August 12, 2025, 4:46 pm

MANILA -- Leaders of the House of Representatives on Tuesday condemned the latest water cannon attack by the China Coast Guard (CCG) on a Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) vessel.

The incident happened on Monday in the Scarborough Shoal area, according to the PCG, with BRP Suluan successfully evading a water cannon blast from CCG-3104, resulting in a collision between the CCG craft and a warship of the China's People's Liberation Army Navy.

"The Chinese have become victims of their own aggression," Deputy Speaker and La Union Rep. Paolo Ortega V said.

"They are not supposed to be in Scarborough in the first place. They are intruders there. That area off Zambales and Pangasinan is what is known to our fishermen as Bajo de Masinloc. It is their traditional fishing ground," he said.

China seized Scarborough Shoal in 2012 after a standoff between CCG and PCG. It has since been harassing Filipino fisherfolk in the area and Philippine ships patrolling it.

Deputy Speaker and Zambales Rep. Jay Khonghun, said China's aggression "endangers not only our people but their own."

"What happened on Monday is karma manifesting itself, if the Chinese understand the word. What goes around comes around. Unfortunately for them, they were at the receiving end of their own misdeed," Khonghun said.

For his part, House Deputy Majority Leader and Lanao del Sur Rep. Zia Alonto Adiong urged China to learn its lesson from Monday's incident.

"There is nothing to be gained in claiming a territory belonging to another country and refusing to recognize the ruling of an arbitral tribunal constituted under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea that favored the Philippines, even if many countries acknowledge or support that ruling," he said.

"It's time that Beijing stop its aggressive activities in the West Philippine Sea, from Scarborough Shoal in the north off Zambales and Pangasinan to Ayungin Shoal in the south near Palawan, areas that are far away from China," he said.

Adiong also appealed to Beijing and its "disinformation peddlers" not to reverse the narrative of Monday's incident.

Meanwhile, the three House leaders praised the PCG crew "for acting professionally in the face of provocation from their Chinese counterparts." (PNA)