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2025.06.30 08:41 GMT+8

Ren'ai Jiao: The Truth Behind the Tensions

Updated 2025.06.30 08:41 GMT+8
CGTN

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. 

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