“Even as China’s President Xi Jinping mobilized a ‘people’s war’ against the coronavirus, Chinese warships were busy on another front: maintaining their pressure campaign in the South China Sea, where a buildup of military activity foreshadows a new U.S.-China cold war,” the Los Angeles Times reports.
“Across the resource-rich waterway, China Coast Guard and paramilitary vessels have continued to harass fishing boats, military ships and oil and gas rigs belonging to smaller Southeast Asian states that reject Beijing’s sweeping claims over nearly the entire sea.”
Thomas Friedman: Is there war coming between the U.S. and China?
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