“In October, a U.S. guided-missile destroyer, the USS Lassen, challenged territorial limits around one of China’s man-made islands in the Spratly archipelago with a so-called freedom-of-navigation patrol.  China claims most of the South China Sea, through which more than $5 trillion in global trade passes every year. Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunei, the Philippines and Taiwan have rival claims.  The United States is responding to China’s moves by putting its ‘best and newest’ assets in the Asia-Pacific and investing in space, cyber, missile defense, and electronic warfare, he added.”

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/11/08/us-southchinasea-usa-carter-idUSKCN0SW0SL20151108

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