"By contrast, a state-run newspaper in China printed a commentary this week calling for a greater civilian presence in its reclaimed islands in order to tamp down international concerns about China's ambitions. A report in Reuters quoted China's influential Study Times, which noted the "potential risk of war" in the region.
"Facilities on the reefs and islands of the South China Sea should be more civilian and less military," according to the paper."
I try not to read the Fudge Report. It raises my blood pressure.
I read Liberty Daily, the conservative alternative to the Fudge Report.
China is a communist regime top to bottom. The same guy(s) call the shots for all, military and civilian alike.
So, I don’t see a hair on fire issue here. Just more hand wringing and woe is me.
These are the same allies who appease muslims in the hope that by not offending them the muslims won’t kill them so many of the appeasers.