News Snapshot:
Owing to its tremendous economic and geostrategic importance, with one-third of the globe’s maritime shipping passing through it to contribute an annual trade of over US $3 trillion, Beijing has latched on to its century-old belief of claiming most of the region. However, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo along with Defense Secretary Mark Esper have spearheaded President Donald Trump’s revolution against China’s increasing belligerence in laying claims to territories outside its dominion and have called on for allies to join them in the revolution. the US has kept expanding its vessel and aircraft operations in the South China Sea....