This is a CVS. I and the world. I'm John Bachelor. Gordon Chang. I've

Gordon G. Chang joins me as my colleague and we go to the news out of Asia Pacific, Oceania. China

accuses Philippines supply ship of hitting Chinese vessel in South China Sea.

Daylight Beijing Reuters China and the Philippines traded accusations over a maritime

collision in the South China Sea, the latest in an increasingly test-se series of confrontations.

China's Coast Guard said a Philippine supply ship,

deliberately and dangerously, that's quote,

approached a Chinese ship resulting in a slight collision after it, quote,

illegally intruded, end quote, into waters near second Thomas Shoal,

a charge that Manila rejected as, quote, deceptive and misleading.

We welcome Rebecca Grant, Vice President of the Lexington Institute to take us to the

South China Sea.

This episode is one in a series of threats to the Philippines

over these last months. Rebecca, a very good day to you. We're going to the G7 statement about China and Russia, but we begin with, you know, you march to the sound of gunfire. This looks like a collision, something that's been threatened before by Chinese Coast

Guard so-called, and the Philippines is responding by saying we were deliberately blocked from resupply of our

deployment in the South China Sea. Why now why this Rebecca are we looking at People's Republic of China that doesn't know what

the left hand's doing good evening to you good evening as the sailors would say these two vessels scraped hate.

That means that they bombed, neither was seriously damaged.

But this is never supposed to happen in maritime operations.

And you've got to ask first, why are the Chinese there?

The world knows and recognizes that as Philippine waters.

And of course, the Philippine vessel is doing its routine resupply. No threat

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