WIRE — BEIJING, China — Beijing has quietly confirmed the deaths of two Chinese sailors in a collision in the contested West Philippine Sea, according to government statements nearly a year after the incident. Last August, a Chinese navy vessel collided with one from its own coast guard while chasing a Philippine patrol boat near a disputed
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