Chinese Coast Guard rammed and boarded Philippine naval boats and confiscated their weapons in the South China Sea, injuring a Filipino soldier, the Philippine military said on Wednesday.
“The Chinese Coast Guard personnel illegally embarked on our RHIBS (rigid-hulled inflatable boats),” Rear Admiral Alfonso Torres told reporters, adding that Chinese boarders had some guns.
The incident is the latest in a series of escalating confrontations between Chinese and Philippine vessels in recent months off the disputed Second Thomas Shoal, where a tiny Philippine garrison is stationed on an old warship BRP Sierra Madre that was deliberately beached.
You know those monster movies where two of the characters get in a heated argument, and in the background the horrifying creature they kind of knew about (that the stress of is part of what is leading to the argument), is coming into the frame, slowly and silently getting closer to them while they are distracted?
In this case it is labeled climate change
It’s also called a grey rhino event. A black swan event hits you out of nowhere. A grey rhino you see charging toward you but you decide to ignore the little dot on the horizon.