China and Philippines trade blame after ships collide again in disputed waters https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/china-accuses-philippines-deliberately-crashing-ship-chinese-vessel-rcna167106
nbcnews on August 19, 2024 8:28 am Chinese and Philippine coast guard ships collided at sea, damaging at least two boats, in an encounter early Monday near a new flashpoint in their [increasingly alarming confrontations in the disputed South China Sea](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/us-get-drawn-conflict-south-china-sea-rcna166874). Both blamed the other for the collision near Sabina Shoal, a disputed atoll in the Spratly Islands, where overlapping claims are also made by [Vietnam](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/vietnam-sentences-real-estate-tycoon-death-fraud-rcna147329) and [Taiwan](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/autocracy-evil-taiwan-president-says-china-threatens-death-separatism-rcna158529). There were no reports of injuries.
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Chinese and Philippine coast guard ships collided at sea, damaging at least two boats, in an encounter early Monday near a new flashpoint in their [increasingly alarming confrontations in the disputed South China Sea](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/us-get-drawn-conflict-south-china-sea-rcna166874).
Both blamed the other for the collision near Sabina Shoal, a disputed atoll in the Spratly Islands, where overlapping claims are also made by [Vietnam](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/vietnam-sentences-real-estate-tycoon-death-fraud-rcna147329) and [Taiwan](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/autocracy-evil-taiwan-president-says-china-threatens-death-separatism-rcna158529). There were no reports of injuries.