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China’s dangerous provocation demands a response from the U.S.
Editorial Board MAY 26
The United States must hold firm against the Asian giant’s buildup in the Spratly Islands.
"THE UNITED States last week stepped up its efforts to call attention to China’s massive and provocative expansion of infrastructure in a disputed portion of the South China Sea. The Navy invited
CNN aboard a surveillance flight and released video the next day of what one U.S. official called an attempt “to make
sovereign land out of sand castles” in the Spratly Islands. The flight by a P-8A Poseidon aircraft drew eight
warnings from the Chinese navy and an angry denunciation by the Chinese Foreign Ministry, which called it “very irresponsible and also very dangerous.” But the U.S. action was legal and appropriate. . . .
"Other nations have reclaimed land and built installations in the Spratlys. But China’s operation stands out for its
scale and speed and for the brazenness with which the regime of Xi Jinping advances questionable territorial claims while rejecting international mediation or a negotiated code of conduct. Relying on a slapdash map dating to the 1940s, which consists of
nine dashes across the waters east of China, Beijing claims 80 percent of the South China Sea, which is crisscrossed by international shipping lanes.
It seeks to exclude foreign ships and planes from a 200-mile zone around its claimed territory, rather than the 12 miles recognized by the United States. . . . "
