Micah McCartney is a reporter for Newsweek based in Taipei, Taiwan. He covers U.S.-China relations, East Asian and Southeast Asian security issues, and cross-strait ties between China and Taiwan.

You can just imagine how much it would impact dito sa ating mas maliit na [the larger ship would have had on our smaller] coast guard vessel,” Tarriela said. Tarriela noted that this was not the first ...