Subject: Re: Ayungan Shoal
I read they were armed with swords. Which is kind of weird. How is boarding someone else's boat with a sword any better than boarding it with a gun? You're still trying to intimidate the Filipinos.

I'm not sure why -if they had guns- they didn't shoot the guys with the swords. Unless there was a 50-cal mounted on the Chinese boat, aimed right at them.