Video shows Chinese ships colliding in South China Sea

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00:00A ship from China's Coast Guard just hit another vessel.

00:03Not from an enemy nation or some sort of commercial vessel, but from the Chinese Navy.

00:11This is newly released video from the Philippine Coast Guard,

00:15showing the unusual and dangerous moment in the South China Sea.

00:19A China Coast Guard cutter was chasing a Philippine patrol ship

00:23about 11 nautical miles east of the Scarborough Shoal,

00:27when it slammed into a larger destroyer from the People's Liberation Army Navy.

00:33That's the official name of China's maritime forces.

00:36The footage shows the cutter spraying water as it closed in on the BRP Suluwan,

00:42a Filipino vessel escorting fishing boats.

00:45That's when the destroyer moved between the Suluwan and the Chinese cutter.

00:50The impact crumpled the cutter's bow and, according to Philippine officials, left it unseaworthy.

00:56A few sailors were on the cutter's bow just seconds before the collision.

01:02It's unclear if any were injured.

01:04The Filipino vessel reportedly offered manned overboard assistance and medical aid.

01:10Manila is also calling on China to once again follow international collision prevention protocols.

01:17Beijing did not comment on the collision directly,

01:20but accused the Filipinos of forcibly intruding into waters that China claims as its own.

01:28The Scarborough Shoal is a long-standing flashpoint between China and the Philippines,

01:33and the hostilities between the two are escalating.

01:36It's a topic we've covered extensively here at Straight Arrow News,

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