China’s Building Pacific Hegemony

This summer, Dinesh D’Souza released a terrific film exploring what a world without America would look like. The answer is taking shape in the South China Sea’s remote Spratly Islands. And it isn’t pretty.

Communist China is building there a new island complete with an airfield suitable for high performance airplanes and a harbor that can accommodate large warships.

From this man-made platform, China will be able to enforce its claim to vast stretches of international waters and the airspace above and the abundant mineral wealth and other natural resources beneath them.

At the same time, China is promoting its new “Asia for Asians” policy as a vehicle for formalizing hegemony over East Asia and the Western Pacific.

No good can come of all this. But will President Obama oppose it?