The Philippines on Wednesday expressed “deep concern” over the April 3 collision between a Chinese coast guard vessel and a Vietnamese fishing boat in the South China Sea. Collin Koh Swee Lean, a research fellow at the Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies (IDSS) at Singapore’s NTU, said, “The Communist Party won’t be relenting on asserting China’s maritime sovereignty and rights, with or without the pandemic… Beijing won’t be showing any magnanimity on the South China Sea front, even as it offers medical help to those very same countries grappling with the virus.”