Ship Crash Video - Chinese Coast Guard Crashes Into Chinese Navy Destroyer While Attempting to Chase Filipino Ship Out of Disputed Waters
BBC – A Chinese warship ploughed into its own coast guard vessel on Monday while the latter was chasing a Philippine vessel in the South China Sea, Manila said.
Philippine coast guard officials were distributing aid to fishermen in the disputed Scarborough Shoal, Commodore Jay Tarriela said, when the Chinese coast guard "performed a risky manoeuvre" which inflicted "substantial damage" on the Chinese warship's forward deck.
The South China Sea is at the centre of a territorial dispute between China, the Philippines and other countries.
Being on that Filipino boat looks like it would have been a blast. That's gotta be about as much (sober) fun as you can have on a boat. To be suddenly turned on by the Chinese, have two enemy ships chase you, then narrowly evading the ships so that they crash into each other hard enough to leave one of the them "unseaworthy". That rocks. What a thrill that must have been.
I don't know how we're going to get it, but I'd love to get even more Chinese vs Philippines water territory dispute videos. It sounds like a heck of a feud. A feud involving swords, no less.
Tensions between Beijing and Manila have sharply escalated in recent years, with each side accusing the other of provocations and altercations at sea.
In June 2024, Filipino soldiers used their "bare hands" to fight off Chinese coast guard personnel armed with swords, spears and knives in the area. The skirmish led to one Filipino soldier losing his thumb, Manila said
Shoutout to the Philippine Coast Guard for always having the cell phone cameras rolling. Maybe once they get the time to catch up on Barstool Beach House, they'll adopt the "filming everything with your phones at all times and post in real time" strategy and turn this thing into a reality show – Water Wars: Scarborough Shoal
I'd imagine China is at a massive advantage when it comes to… well pretty much everything involving a water war. But shoutout to the Philippines for holding their own. They've got Chinese boats smashing into each other. The Philippine Coast Guard brought nothing but their bare fists to a swords, knives, spears, and axe fight, yet managed to get out of there with nothing worse than a single lost thumb. Now China's out here giving misleading reports about "what's actually happening" out on the water.
China confirmed that a confrontation took place and accused the Philippines of "forcibly intruding" into Chinese waters, but did not mention the collision.
No mention of the crash, China? You thought the Filipino's weren't filming your dumb ass ships? Thought you were just gonna tow this bad boy home without anybody noticing?
Jesus, China. Get a handle on your narrative.
AND ONE MORE THING ABOUT CHINA. I thought about blogging this separately, but one story is months old, and the other didn't seem worth a blog (which says a lot for me because I'll write about anything). But while I'm here… in the past 24 hours, I've come across two "stories" about some "innovative" new thing that "China" is doing. Except in both instances, China just fully invented something that already exists in abundance.
Example #1: Chinese People Are Buying Small Easily Constructible Homes and Grouping Them on Acre-Sized Lots
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Those are trailer parks, China. They are absolutely fucking everywhere. Just because you dressed them up like spaceships, and your residents are seemingly young professionals with all their teeth, doesn't mean you didn't just invent trailer parks.
Example #2: Young Chinese Adults Are Paying Money to Go To an Office and Search for Jobs/Start Their Personal Business
That's called renting a personal office space. You could also call it an Internet cafe. It's a place to go and be productive that's not your home. All that has to happen to make this not a story at all is the office starts selling coffee. If that place sells coffee, they're literally just working from a coffee shop.
But outlets like BBC want to act like China is doing something. Both those things exist everywhere. You're just framing them in a different way. I have half a mind to think the mainstream media is trying to Chineseify he United States. Like we should just start being "fiscally responsible", and "taking our careers" seriously. I swear to White American God if I see a story about how young Chinese adults are saving money by buying food ingredients from local restaurants and taking them home to cook the meals themselves… I'm onto you guys.