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Asia’s Mediterranean: Strategy, Geopolitics, and Risk In The Seas of The Indo-Pacific

February 29, 2016
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By Michael Auslin (original source War on the Rocks) 

I. The news that China has deployed advanced fighter jets to, and emplaced surface-to-air missiles on, Woody Island in the disputed Paracel Island chain confirms long-held fears that Beijing plans to militarize its possessions in the South China Sea. As Adm. Harry Harris, commander of U.S. Pacific Command, testified before Congress in February, China is militarizing the South China Sea, and to think otherwise, “you’d have to believe in a flat Earth.” He stated, “I believe China seeks hegemony in East Asia.”

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