MANILA, Feb. 21 -- Several foreign missions in the Philippines have conveyed concern over the recent incident at the Scarborough Shoal involving a Chinese Navy helicopter that flew as close as 3 meters from a Filipino aircraft on Feb. 18.

These are the embassies of Australia, New Zealand, South Korea, the United Kingdom, Denmark, and the United States in the Philippines, as well as the European Union Delegation in Manila.

The New Zealand Embassy said Friday the behavior of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Navy helicopter against the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) plane "poses real risk to safety and lives."

Such acts, it said, also "risk undermining regional stability."

The United Kingdom, on the other hand...