Asian Americans in San Francisco Protest CCP’s Growing Presence in South China Sea

July 17, 2024 TruthUSA

Dozens of Asian Americans rallied and marched in front of the Chinese Consulate in San Francisco on July 12, urging the Chinese regime to stop its expansion and aggression around the South China Sea that have threatened its neighboring countries.

July 12 marked the eighth anniversary of the Philippines’ victory in the South China Sea territory disputes against the Chinese regime. In 2016, the Permanent Court of Arbitration ruled in favor of the Philippines under Annex VII of the 1982 U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea. The ruling clarified that China’s historic rights claims over the maritime area near the Philippines have no lawful effect.

“China lied, people died,” shouted the protesters who joined the July 12 event in celebration of the 2016 international court’s ruling and in protest against the Chinese military’s provocative behavior in recent months near the Philippines.

“We reject China’s continuing piracy as shown by its illegal patrolling, water-cannoning, use of lasers, and physical and kinetic harm inflicted upon soldiers trying to supply food and medicines to soldiers guarding the Ayungin Shoal,” the event organizer, the Filipino American Human Rights Alliance (FAHRA), wrote in a statement to The Epoch Times.

In recent months, the territory disputes between China and the Philippines have escalated, and actions taken by the Chinese coast guard have injured Filipino soldiers.

U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin openly criticized China’s actions at a May press conference in Honolulu,