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On Scarborough Shoal, meanwhile, flags are being pulled down and new ones hoisted at an alarming rate.
ECONOMIST: The Philippines
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Similar heavy-handed action was used against the Philippines in a spat over the Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea in April 2012.
CNN: China: New leaders, same assertive foreign policy
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The Philippines and China have territorial disputes in the South China Sea, and engaged in a lengthy stand-off over the Scarborough shoal last year.
BBC: Philippines 'discovers rare pangolins' on Chinese ship
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The row between Manila and Beijing has been rumbling since April 2012, when government vessels from both nations faced off for several weeks at the Scarborough Shoal.
BBC: Philippines 'to take South China Sea row to court'
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"The ambassador of China took the view that they have full sovereignty over the Scarborough Shoal, " Mr. del Rosario told reporters after the meeting at his Manila office, according to AP.
WSJ: Philippine Warship, China Ships in Standoff
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One of those involves an increasingly shrill argument with the Philippines about who has sovereignty over the Scarborough Shoal, a group of rocks in the South China Sea called the Huangyan Islands by China.
BBC: Chinese look to US as Beijing seeks to build soft power
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Philippine Foreign Secretary Albert Del Rosario said he met with Chinese Ambassador Ma Keqing and both reaffirmed their governments' positions that the Scarborough Shoal where the ships are facing off was part of their own country's territory and neither was ready to stand down.
WSJ: Philippine Warship, China Ships in Standoff
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The two navies engaged each other after the Philippine vessel a former Coast Guard cutter provided by the U.S. Navy attempted to arrest the crew of several Chinese fishing boats who were anchored at Scarborough Shoal, off the Philippines' northwest coast but which is also claimed by China.
WSJ: Philippine Warship, China Ships in Standoff