A spokesman for the Philippine Coast Guard said the deployment aimed to ensure Chinese patrols "are not normalised, and that this bullying behaviour does not succeed". MANILA: The Philippines said on Sunday (Jan 12) that it had deployed a coast guard ship to challenge Chinese patrol boats attempting to "alter the existing status quo" of the disputed South China Sea. Beijing claims most of the strategic waterway despite a 2016 international tribunal ruling that went against it, and there have