China deploys advanced WZ-7 drone for first time near Scarborough Shoal

Beijing deployed its advanced WZ-7 high-altitude reconnaissance drone in the South China Sea for the first time during drills near the disputed Scarborough Shoal at the weekend. The People’s Liberation Army’s Southern Theatre Command announced on Sunday that it had conducted joint air and naval exercises in the waters and airspace around the shoal earlier in the day. Scarborough Shoal – a coral atoll known as Huangyan Island in China and Panatag Shoal in the Philippines – has emerged as a major...