In early April 2020, a Chinese Coast Guard vessel and a Vietnamese fishing boat collided near Woody Island in the South China Sea. The Chinese government
China’s 11th five-year plan (2006-2010) allocated one trillion yuan to the development of water infrastructure. Today, in China’s push for regional hegemony, water is crucial to its expansionist aims.
Tensions between the United States, China and Indonesia are searing in the hotly contested waters of the South China sea after a Chinese vessel trespassed into Indonesian waters recently.