Κey point: The bases constitute a threat to U.S. military dominance in the Pacific.
- Kyle Mizokami
- The National Interest
In recent years the People’s Republic of China has laid claim to ninety percent of the South China Sea, buttressing this claim by creating artificial islands with dredging equipment.
These claims run roughshod over Beijing’s neighbors, which have competing claims.
The discovery in 2016 that China had militarized these artificial islands was not exactly surprising, but just how…