Li Mingjiang is a security expert at the Rajaratnam School of International Studies in Singapore. He says the Chinese trips to the Spratlys have been going on for many years – but the situation is worse now.
Mr. Hernandez says this year’s Chinese fishing trip may appear to be normal and usual. But he says in his words, it is meant to “aggressively claim the whole of the South China Sea.”
Still, China continually has said it has a right to the Spratlys, which it calls the Nansha Islands And it says that its behavior is beyond criticism.
While it fights on the diplomatic level, the Philippines is also talking severely. President Benigno Aquino has announced one-point-eight billion dollars to improve the military. He said his country will always stand up to anybody who threatens it.
Carl Thayer is a security expert wi8th the Australian Defense Force Academy. He says Mr. Aquino will have a hard time supporting his words.
“Until their force modernization takes hold which is years away, there’s nothing much they can do except make public protests.”
I’m Christopher Cruise.
And I’m Jim Tedder in Washington. Thank you for spending some time with us on this Thursday, the twentieth day of June. It was exactly 38 years ago today that American movie goers were screaming with fear as Richard Dreyfus and Robert Shaw set out to destroy the great white shark known as “Jaws.”
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