This Decrepit Ship Could Spark A Conflict Between The U.S. And China
In 1999 the Philippine Marines ran this former U.S. Navy ship aground on a coral reef named Second Thomas Shoal in the South China Sea’s Spratly Islands archipelago. Essentially the ship acts as an ocean-going game of squatter’s rights over the not-quite-island ‘maritime feature’, and the Philippines continues re-supplying the ailing ship and the seamen who live aboard. As of late, the Chinese Coast Guard has been trying to interfere with those supply deliveries. If this dispute escalates furthe
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