The Scarborough Shoal risks boiling over into a full-blown conflict between China and the Philippines.
Mining the deep reporting of CNA's correspondents, Teresa Tang goes behind the scenes with journalists on the frontlines to unpack the biggest Asian and global stories.The Scarborough Shoal is an increasingly sensitive point of tension between China and the Philippines . CNA's Buena Bernal boarded a boat bound for the contested site.
Footage from the Philippine Coast Guard shows a Chinese Coast Guard ship using a water cannon on a Philippine vessel near Scarborough Shoal. /AFP/Handout)What I found really interesting in your TV report was that when you were out on the water, you actually saw these orange buoys in the distance and written on them was a Filipino phrase that you said translates into “This is ours”, which is hugely symbolic.
And now the issue is becoming Sabina Shoal, which is the closest major maritime feature in the West Philippine Sea to the island of Palawan. And so what you're really seeing here, according to academics that I've spoke to is China's quote unquote, constructive occupation of the West Philippine Sea.
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