“The challenge of bypassing the First Island Chain is enormous,” said Mr. Neill, an expert on China’s People’s Liberation Army.
Taiwan's new president urges China to respect island, reminds global partners of its relevance
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"What China is doing is operating in the gray zone, below the threshold of conflict, and ships getting doused with water cannon do not make headlines around the world, but this time they had a media contingent on board," said Alex Neill, an expert on China's armed forces and a research fellow at Pacific Forum. "This looks like plain bullying."
Manila seizes the moral high ground in information wars with China
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