South China Sea: Beijing could get the wrong idea from our stance

[barryqwalsh]

Chinas territorial expansion in the South China Sea will probably continue unabated this year.



Nocookies

 

[barryqwalsh]

China’s land grab in the South China Sea


Fifteen thousand feet below, dozens of Chinese ships tossed at anchor. Their crews had been working day and night for weeks, dredging sand and rock from the ocean floor to fill in a stunning blue lagoon – turning a 3.7-mile-long reef that had only partially revealed itself to the daylight at low tide into a sizable man-made island nearly 1,000 miles away from the Chinese mainland.


What’s behind Beijing’s drive to control the South China Sea? | Howard W French