China moves to block entrance to disputed South China Sea shoal, images show

China is employing ships and a ​barrier to tighten power of the entranceway to the Scarborough Shoal successful the South China Sea amid roiling hostility with the Philippines ‌over the disputed feature, outer imagery obtained by Reuters shows.

Scarborough is 1 of Asia’s astir hotly ​disputed maritime sites, wherever immoderate diplomats and analysts fearfulness long-running frictions and confrontations could degenerate into equipped conflict.