Title:

 Shifting US policy leaves Asian allies at sea

Author:

SIMON ROUGHNEEN

Source:

Nikkei Asian Review

Date:

June 13, 2018

Description:

SINGAPORE -- China has long bristled at the U.S. Navy’s “freedom of navigation operations” in the South China Sea, which challenge Beijing’s territorial claims in the disputed waters. So when Zhao Xiaozhuo, a senior colonel in the Chinese army, found himself with a chance to complain about them directly to U.S. Secretary of Defense James Mattis recently, he took it.