HEADLINE: China's Aggressive Ramming Policy in the South China Sea GUEST NAMES: Captain James Fanell, Gordon Chang SUMMARY: The purposeful ramming of a Philippine Bureau of Fisheries vessel by a massive Chinese Coast Guard cutter is part of a consistent
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 14 October 2025
⏱️ 13 minutes
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GUEST NAMES: Captain James Fanell, Gordon Chang
SUMMARY: The purposeful ramming of a Philippine Bureau of Fisheries vessel by a massive Chinese Coast Guard cutter is part of a consistent CCP strategy to claim total control over the South China Sea. Experts warn that this aggressive pattern will continue unless the US takes stronger action, such as having Navy and Coast Guard vessels escort Filipino ships, bolstering support for its treaty ally.
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| 0:28.6 | Here's John Batchelor. |
| 0:31.6 | With Gordon Chang at Gordon G. Chang, in the Philippine region, in Philippine waters. The report, China and Philippines trade blame over |
| 0:43.9 | boat collision in disputed sea. This is a straits times. Dateline Manila. A Chinese ship, |
| 0:51.9 | quote, deliberately rammed, end quote, a Philippine government vessel |
| 0:55.5 | anchored near an island in a disputed part of the South China Sea. Confrontations between |
| 1:01.7 | Philippine and Chinese vessels occur frequently in the South China Sea, which Beijing claims |
| 1:07.4 | nearly in its entirety, despite an international ruling, that its assertion has no legal basis. |
| 1:15.3 | There is the case. We welcome Captain James Fennel, the United States Navy retired intelligence officer, |
| 1:23.7 | especially helpful on the Pacific Rim, the Indo-Pacific. |
| 1:29.3 | And we turn to what we do know in these last hours about yet another ramming. |
| 1:35.6 | The name of the Chinese vessel, Coast Guard ship, CCG-21559, is my report. |
| 1:43.2 | It rammed a very small resupply ship from the Philippine Navy or Coast Guard. |
| 1:50.0 | The ramming was threatening and the incident was a repeat of an earlier episode which not only |
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