EditorialJ.M.W. Turner’s “Rockets and Blue Lights (Close at Hand) to Warn Steam Boats of Shoal Water” (1840), hangs at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, on April 3, 2022. (Matt Cosby/The New York Times)
EditorialFilipino fisherman aboard a boat near Scarborough Shoal, a disputed reef in the South China Sea that China seized from the Philippines in 2012, off the coast of the Philippines.
EditorialA Chinese Coast Guard ship near the Scarborough Shoal, a reef in the South China Sea claimed by both China and the Philippines, on June 18, 2016. (Sergey Ponomarev/The New York Times)
EditorialThe Scarborough Shoal, which was previously administered by the Philippines before being claimed by China in 2012, in the South China Sea. (Adam Dean/The New York Times)