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Making sense of the twists and turns in recent South China Sea tensions between China and Philippines
Some level of calm has returned to the disputed South China Sea, after talk of red lines, knife-wielding sailors and a severed thumb over the past month. Yew Lun Tian and Mara Cepeda speak to officials and analysts on what could have transpired.
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Chinese naval sailors clashing with Philippine sailors in the South China Sea on June 17.
PHOTO: AFP
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MANILA/SINGAPORE - When Chinese naval sailors wielding knives, an axe and other weapons clashed with Philippine sailors in the South China Sea on June 17, temperatures quickly spiked, with bellicose comments from some quarters in Manila that it was tantamount to an act of aggression.
The situation has since calmed, however, with President Ferdinand Marcos Jr recently ordering Filipino troops to exercise “maximum restraint” in the South China Sea.
