A Chinese vessel and a Philippine ship collided yesterday in the South China Sea, marking the latest and one of the most serious in a series of confrontations between the two sides.
China’s distant-water fishing fleet, the world’s largest, is engaging in human rights abuses and systematic illegal fishing on an unprecedented scale. Urgent action is needed now to rein in the Chinese fleet and end these abuses, which have global security and geopolitical ramifications, as well as real human costs.
