Wednesday Briefing: South China Sea Tensions Cross a Line
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on September 26, 2023
Tensions in the South China Sea cross a line
A diver’s underwater cutting of a section of rope in the South China Sea, as shown in a short video clip this week, may seem too simple an act to qualify as a serious international incident.
But that diver was with the Philippine Coast Guard, and the rope was part of a barrier placed by Chinese forces to keep Philippine boats away from an area where they had a legal right to fish. In that moment, the Philippines took . . .
