
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.