The China Coast Guard (CCG) dispatched two of its ships to a shoal within the country's exclusive economic zone (EEZ) where a Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) vessel was ordering several Chinese maritime militia boats to leave, a PCG spokesperson said Thursday. The BRP Malapascua (MRRV 4403) sent several radio messages to a group of at least 20 Vietnamese and Chinese fishing boats at Sabina (Escoda) Shoal during a patrol on March 16 telling them to leave before deploying several coast guard personnel on rigid hull inflatable boats to verbally give the order as they were in Philippine waters.

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