--- description: The collision occurred on a shipping lane around 20 nautical southeast of Taiwan-controlled Kinmen island off China’s southeast coast title: Coast Guard: China Warship Collided With Taiwan Freighter image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9f9a011d7911502f/698a00b716d884e72ec36c41/china-warship-taiwan.jpg?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [World](/section/world/) ## World Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [China](/tag/china/) ## China Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Chinese Warship Collided With Taiwanese Freighter, Coast Guard Says by [ADELA LIN / BLOOMBERG](/author/bloomberg/) ## ADELA LIN / BLOOMBERG Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Aug 1, 2019 9:50 AM CUT  China's aircraft carrier the Liaoning (front), sails with other ships during a drill in April 2018. China's aircraft carrier the Liaoning (front), sails with other ships during a drill in April 2018.AFP/Getty Images by [ADELA LIN / BLOOMBERG](/author/bloomberg/) ## ADELA LIN / BLOOMBERG Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Aug 1, 2019 9:50 AM CUT (Bloomberg) — A Chinese warship collided with a Taiwanese freighter Wednesday evening, damaging the bulk carrier, Taiwan’s Coast Guard Administration said. The collision occurred around 20 nautical southeast of Taiwan-controlled Kinmen island off China’s southeast coast, according to a statement from the coast guard. No injuries were reported. The statement identified the Chinese vessel as a People’s Liberation Army warship. The coast guard said they managed to make contact with the Chinese ship suspected of being involved in the crash but the captain declined to assist in an investigation into the incident. The incident occurred on an established shipping lane after dark, Chen Chien-wen, a spokesman for the Kinmen Coast Guard, said by phone Thursday. Investigators are looking into how the collision occurred. The collision comes as China increases pressure on Taiwan ahead of the democratic island’s presidential elections in January. Beijing on Wednesday [issued](https://mercury.bloomberg.com/news/PVI3F8T1UM0Y "undefined") a surprise ban on individual tourists from 47 Chinese cities traveling to Taiwan. The U.S. has increased its number of transits by its warships through the Taiwan Strait this year, signaling its support for the island in the face of Chinese threats to reclaim Taiwan by force. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5641156/china-warship-collision-taiwan-freighter/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5641156/china-warship-collision-taiwan-freighter/"},"headline":"Chinese Warship Collided With Taiwanese Freighter, Coast Guard Says","datePublished":"2019-08-01T09:50:06.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-24T00:08:02.371Z","description":"The collision comes as China increases pressure on Taiwan ahead of the democratic island’s presidential elections","url":"https://time.com/5641156/china-warship-collision-taiwan-freighter/","keywords":["China","onetime","overnight"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9f9a011d7911502f/698a00b716d884e72ec36c41/china-warship-taiwan.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"ADELA LIN / BLOOMBERG"}],"articleSection":"World","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9f9a011d7911502f/698a00b716d884e72ec36c41/china-warship-taiwan.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"CHINA-JAPAN-TAIWAN-MILITARY-DIPLOMACY","caption":"CHINA-JAPAN-TAIWAN-MILITARY-DIPLOMACY","creditText":"AFP/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/world/","name":"World"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/china/","name":"China"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5641156/china-warship-collision-taiwan-freighter/","name":"Chinese Warship Collided With Taiwanese Freighter, Coast Guard Says"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"China Bans Citizens From Traveling to Taiwan as Individual Tourists","description":"In its latest effort to increase pressure on Taiwan, Beijing said it will suspend a program that allowed individual tourists from 47 Chinese cities to travel to Taiwan, citing the current state of relations between the two sides.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/foHIu5yt/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2019-07-31T14:13:50.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/foHIu5yt.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/5641156/china-warship-collision-taiwan-freighter/","duration":"PT1M34S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/5641156/china-warship-collision-taiwan-freighter/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```