Tensions escalate as Chinese military conducts war games in SCS

China`s military conducted war games in the disputed South China Sea on Friday as tensions simmer over Beijing`s island-building in the region.China insists it has sovereignty over virtually all of the resource-rich South China Sea, conflicting with the various claims of Vietnam, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan and Brunei.Warships, submarines, early warning aircraft and fighter jets were deployed in exercises that occurred over a "range of several thousand kilometres", the People`s Liberation Army Daily said.hey were split into red and blue teams that practised deflecting anti-ship missile attacks and scenarios that included one of an accidental strike on a third-party commercial ship, it added.