Stealth Fighters Washed Away: 1 Typhoon Could Wipe Out China’s South China Sea Militarized Islands

Stealth Fighters Washed Away: 1 Typhoon Could Wipe Out China’s South China Sea Militarized Islands

This practice by China was supposed to be a strategic masterstroke. In order to enforce Beijing’s flimsy claims of territorial ownership in the First Island Chain and the South China Sea, the Chinese reinforced a network of islands, rocks, seamounts, and reefs to increase the effectiveness of their anti-access/ area denial gambit to keep the United States and its allies down and out in the Indo-Pacific. Now it looks like these militarized sea te…