China's assertive and unsafe behavior in the South China Sea has made crashes more likely, experts say. Questions remain on what China will do next.

Dramatic footage shows two Chinese government ships violently colliding Monday while chasing down a Filipino coast guard vessel in a disputed area of the South China Sea.

It’s hard to call the collision of two multi-thousand-ton military ships “fortunate,” but that’s exactly what analysts are saying about the incident in the South China Sea this week that left a China Coast Guard ship with a heavily damaged bow after it hit a People’s Liberation Army Navy guided-missile destroyer.

The announcement came shortly after the two nations held their first joint naval exercise in the disputed South China Sea.