Ren'ai Jiao: The Truth Behind the Tensions

Ren'ai Jiao: The Truth Behind the Tensions

CGTN
30 Jun 2025, 00:41 GMT+

A new documentary premiering at a film festival in New Zealand distorts the facts surrounding China's Ren'ai Jiao (Second Thomas Shoal). Experts offer a different perspective. Wu Shicun, Chairman of the Huayang Research Center for Maritime Co-operation and Ocean Governance, says in 1999, the Philippines deliberately grounded a decommissioned warship on the reef-a calculated move to lay claim-and has failed to fulfill its promise to remove the vessel. 

Source: CGTN

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