The Vietnam and Philippines were
considered as China’s major frontline opponents in South China Sea territorial dispute.
This was reported by a US monthly magazine.
The said magazine stated that China
view Philippines as more attractive mark “to intimidate and debase as object lesson to
its other neighbors that its resistance is very futile and very decisive help
from United States unlikely to come.”
It also reported that China was increasing
its efforts to remake its original maritime borders in order to gain exclusive
access to the potentially rich areas, and to secure its supply lines and enables
them to create much larger bulwark against US intrusions.
Western analysts also view
China’s approach in South China Sea was a sort of a calibrated incrementalism,
whereby Chinese presence in the disputed areas are built gradually, in series
of aggravation that were individually very small enough to make a forceful
resistance.
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