IN recent weeks, we fired off diplomatic protests against China’s forcible occupation of the South China Sea, creation of an administrative region to govern this strategic body of water, construction of artificial island fortresses to enforce its “anti-access area denial strategy,” and aggressive actions to include ramming and sinking of fishing boats.
One of our diplomatic protests has to do with China’s illegal designation of Fiery Cross (Kagitingan) Reef within the Kalayaan Island Group (Spratly Islands) as a regional administrative center for Spratly, where it has turned seven reefs into missile-protected island bases, three of which have runways.
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