Beijing stages ‘combat readiness’ patrols at Scarborough Shoal in disputed South China Sea

China carried retired caller naval and aerial patrols astir the disputed Scarborough Shoal successful the South China Sea, successful a determination apt to heighten tensions with the Philippines and its pact ally, the United States.China’s Southern Theater Command said warships and subject craft conducted "combat readiness" patrols astir Scarborough Shoal connected Saturday, framing the cognition arsenic a effect to what it called "infringement provocations of idiosyncratic countries wrong the region."

According to the authorities media, a video released by the PLA Southern Theater Command shows an H-6K bomber equipped with YJ-12 anti-ship missiles and the Type 055 ample destroyer Xianyang, alongside different PLA warplanes and warships.