And then there’s this extract of article in The AUST today:...

And then there’s this extract of article in The AUST today:
CHINESE COASTGUARD VESSEL RAMS PHILIPPINES BOAT
Manila: The Philippines accused a Chinese coastguard vessel of colliding with a Philippine resupply boat on Sunday as it travelled to a tiny garrison in the disputed South China Sea. The incident occurred near Second Thomas Shoal in the Spratly Islands, a hotly contested region where Beijing deploys hundreds of vessels to assert its claims over almost the entire sea.
….. China claims almost the entire South China Sea, through which trillions of dollars in trade passes annually, and has ignored an international ruling that its assertion has no legal basis.
Second Thomas Shoal is 200km from the western Philippine island of Palawan, and more than 1000km from China’s nearest major landmass, Hainan island.