Two Chinese warships collided while operating in the South China Sea on Monday. Video of the incident (embedded at the end of this article) shows a People’s Liberation Army-Navy Type 052D destroyer crashing into the bow of a Chinese coast guard vessel as both ships attempted to intercept a Philippines’ coast guard vessel.

That Philippines vessel was escorting fishing vessels as they operated in the Scarborough Shoal, waters well within the Philippines’ exclusive economic zone. The Chinese coast guard vessel’s bow was heavily damaged by the collision. This is an embarrassing incident for Beijing. Indeed, China has thus far refused to admit that the incident even occurred.

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