U.S. Gunboat Diplomacy Will Only Embolden China
Trump's aggression in Latin America has given a powerful boost to Beijing in the Pacific.
In recent decades, China has adopted a muscular approach to the Pacific Ocean, prompting other countries to sound the alarm over Beijing's pushy attitude toward smaller and weaker countries.
- China has employed a maritime strategy similar to that used by Western powers a century earlier.
- Beijing has made legally and historically dubious claims to ownership of nearly all of the South China Sea.
- China has built artificial islands from dredged sand for use as military outposts to enforce its control.
As China pressed its claims, it boldly built artificial islands in far reaches of the ocean.
Author's summary: U.S. aggression boosts China's power.
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