"China and the Philippines have accused each other of ramming coast guard vessels in a disputed area of the South China Sea.

The Philippines has claimed a Chinese ship "directly and intentionally rammed" into its vessel, while Beijing has accused the Philippines of "deliberately" crashing into a Chinese ship.

Saturday's collision near the Sabina Shoal is the latest in a long-running - and escalating - row between the two countries over various islands and zones in the South China Sea.

Within the past two weeks, there have been at least three other incidents in the same area involving ships belonging to the two countries."

"China and the Philippines have accused each other of ramming coast guard vessels in a disputed area of the South China Sea.

The Philippines has claimed a Chinese ship "directly and intentionally rammed" into its vessel, while Beijing has accused the Philippines of "deliberately" crashing into a Chinese ship.

Saturday's collision near the Sabina Shoal is the latest in a long-running - and escalating - row between the two countries over various islands and zones in the South China Sea.

Within the past two weeks, there have been at least three other incidents in the same area involving ships belonging to the two countries."

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2erwedxz5o

Heard a story this morning about the events that has been unfolding in the South China Sea over territorial disputes between China and the Philippines over a submerged reef located in the Spratly Islands. 

Over 20 years ago China built a small structure on one of the reef, Mischief Reef to be exact, curiously I Google mapped it to see what the reef looked like today. To my surprise it has now turned into a whole military base. 

While continuing my dive down the rabbit hole, it seems the whole area around the Spratly Islands is filled with billions of barrels of untapped oil and natural gas. Even thought the area is closer to the Philippines than it is to China, seem greed is the motivating factor in these event. 

https://amti.csis.org/mischief-reef/#OverviewImages-heading

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/us-get-drawn-conflict-south-china-sea-rcna166874

I've recently been reading up on this after a conversation with a few friends that's out there in the Philippines on TDY.

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I've recently been reading up on this after a conversation with a few friends that's out there in the Philippines on TDY. 

https://warpcast.com/cinders.eth/0x96393387