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NBC News:

A Chinese warship crashed into one of its own country’s coast guard vessels as it chased a patrol boat belonging to the Philippines, officials in Manila said Monday, after the latest territorial dispute in the South China Sea.

The ships dramatically collided near the Scarborough Shoal, a contested island, as the Filipino vessel was delivering fuel and supplies to more than 30 fishing boats, the country’s coast guard said in a statement Monday.

Several videos posted on X by Jay Tarriela, a spokesperson for the Philippines coast guard, showed the Chinese ships on both sides of its coast guard vessel, traveling at quite a pace. In one of the videos, a warship bearing the number 164 comes very close to the Filipino ship’s port side. …

Although the Chinese coast guard vessel tries to turn, it appears to smash into the port side of its own country’s warship as the Filipino boat sails away.

It is unclear from the video how much damage was done or whether anyone on the Chinese ships was injured.