China conducts naval patrols at Scarborough Shoal amid tensions

A Chinese Coast Guard vessel was damaged this month in a collision with a Chinese naval vessel near the Scarborough Shoal, in the first known crash between China's ships there.

China claims almost the entire South China Sea, despite overlapping claims by Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines and Vietnam.

(Reporting by Beijing Newsroom; Editing by Clarence Fernandez)