The Chinese have come up with a new strategy for controlling vital sea lanes. Build islands and then put bases on them. They have, according to U.S. Pacific Fleet Commander Adm. Harry Harris, built “a ‘great wall of sand’ in contested waters near its shores … pumping sand onto live coral reefs — some of them submerged — and paving over them with concrete … [creating] over 4 square kilometers of artificial landmass.”

Mark Hensch of The Hill writes that:

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