Summary

China and the Philippines have reportedly reached a peace agreement, though details remain undisclosed. This development is significant due to recent tensions, including China's construction of manmade islands and the Philippines' actions, such as beaching an old World War II ship to assert territorial claims. The conflict has involved unconventional tactics, like China's buoy barriers and clashes between Chinese and Filipino vessels. The situation had escalated to the point of physical confrontations, raising concerns about potential broader conflicts involving allies like the United States. The reported cooperation between China and the Philippines offers a hopeful sign of de-escalation, though the situation remains fluid.

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The country of China and the country of the Philippines have decided to both come together and form some sort of peace agreement or some sort of resolution that heads towards peace. Now, unfortunately, for the public and unfortunately for you, we are not given the details of what exactly China and the Philippines are trying to do. But what we do know is there is some sort of peace. The reason why this is a very important and a really good thing is because the two countries have been engaging in some very unconventional warfare tactics such as China forming and creating their own manmade islands and essentially pushing the boundaries of how far China spreads from mainland China. But the country of the Philippines has not been budging. In fact, the country of the Philippines has gone as far as docking purposely beaching a World War Two ship that was given to them by the United States and saying we own this territory. In fact, this is a military base. I kid you not, this is a World War Two ship that is just stricken with terrible decay on the ship. The sailors who are on the ship they live in horrible conditions, but they are willing to live there and to fight there to keep China away. China has gone as far as also creating these buoy barriers in which they're saying the Chinese Coast Guard, these are our territories, Filipino fishermen, any Filipino military members stay away from our borders. So again, you now have Filipino fishermen actually cutting away these buoys in defiance to China. Everything has really seemed to escalate it even to where Chinese ships have crashed into Filipino ships and water cannons are sprayed at one another. Again, this all sounds very childish, but when you have weapons pointed at one another, this could lead to an all out war that will definitely suck in a lot of countries such as the United States who is allied with the Philippines and the United States. They do see China as an adversary but definitely do not want to engage military actions in the Pacific. So again, we finally have some good news in which China and the Philippines seem to be cooperating or working together for now. But we will see what actually happens. I've been looking into some recent reports to see if China and the Philippines have been engaging in any sort of foul play and I couldn't find anything which is very promising. So again, my name is Marcus Obeada, a reporter for C2 News.

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Sources:

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/china-philippines-south-china-sea-deal-rcna162887