A Great Wall of the sea


MISCHIEF Reef, anyone? Few have heard of it, or the Spratlys or Paracel Islands, even now; some are just rocks barely visible above water. Why should anyone care?

Since 2011, Napoleon’s prophesied sleeping giant, China, has woken and is moving earth in a literal sense, to build or expand islands militarily in strategic South China Sea locations.

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