The security situation in the South China Sea is deteriorating in a way unseen since the mid-1990s. And given the growth in China ’s military power and global influence since then, it is a much bigger problem for the United States . China ’s challenge in the South China Sea —its expansive extralegal claims to [...]

by: WALTER LOHMAN  and RENATO C. DE CASTRO, Ph.D.
Abstract:
The Philippines occupies a strategic location on the edge of China ’s “first island chain of defense” and has been subjected to persistent and assertive Chinese claims to disputed territory in the South China Sea . These Chinese claims threaten not only the Philippines and the [...]