China played the long game and is becoming dominant in the South China Sea. That’s a big problem for the U.S. Part of a WSJ series examining the problems confronting America’s military.
China incrementally built up military outposts, with little pushback from the U.S., and has emerged as a power in the strategic waters through which trillions of dollars in trade passes
Mischief Reef, an artificial island in the Spratly group of islands in the South China Sea, built by China as a military outpost.In early February, a Philippine coast guard vessel approached a small outpost in the South China Sea when it was hit by green laser beams that temporarily blinded its crew. The source was a Chinese coast guard ship, which Philippine authorities said approached dangerously close.
A few weeks earlier, the U.S. military accused a Chinese fighter pilot of another unsafe action over the waterway—flying within 20 feet of the nose of a U.S. Air Force aircraft.
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