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If the President wants to back down and let China have its way, it is entirely within his executive discretion to direct the Navy to reduce or discontinue FONOPS in the South China Sea. President Trump actually did discontinue them for several months in 2017 as an informal concession to China in...

So far, China hasn't even escalated to the levels that the U.K. and Iceland went to with each other during the so-called Cod Wars; they went as far as warships firing at and chasing down civilian fishing vessels, cutting nets, posturing at each other, and not only closely maneuvering but...

It's completely in accordance with international law for a nation's Coast Guard to use force within its territorial waters; China's simply being aggressive in declaring that it's going to treat all of its claimed territorial waters this way regardless of disputed status. I mean, it's definitely...