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A stretch of uninhabited, low-lying reefs in the South China Sea is fast becoming a dangerous new flashpoint between #China and the #Philippines, dealing a blow to recent efforts to de-escalate tensions in one of the world’s most vital waterways.
Over the past week, Chinese and Philippine vessels have engaged in multiple collisions and face-offs near #SabinaShoal, a disputed atoll lying just 86 miles from the Philippines’ west coast and 745 miles from China, which claims almost all of the South China Sea as its sovereign territory despite an international ruling to the contrary
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/08/27/asia/china-philippines-new-flashpoint-sabina-shoal-intl-hnk/index.html
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