News Snapshot:
On January 7, the state-run China Daily newspaper posted a propaganda video accusing the United States of using “so-called freedom of navigation operations to provoke China and destabilize the region.” The video, titled “U.S. Navy threatens livelihoods in South China Sea,” prominently features a Chinese fisherman it describes as “being one of many fishermen who have witnessed the U.S. Navy flexing its muscles.” The fisherman claims U.S. vessels destroy the buoys and nets of Chinese fishermen. It also speculates about the USS Connecticut (SSN-22), a Seawolf-class nuclear attack submarine damaged last October in a collision with an underwater mountain in...
