Title:

 THAAD, MAD, BAD, part II: Decompiling the South China Sea

Author:

DR. MATTHEW CROSSTON

Source:

Modern Diplomacy

Date:

 November 15, 2016

Description:

The American positions for the past two years have focused on China’s relatively aggressive and unchallenged construction of seven artificial islands and at least three airstrips in the South China Sea. Despite neighborly protests, China has refused to even take part in legal arbitration that was initiated in 2013 by the Philippines at a U.N.-backed tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands.