Meanwhile ...

While our politicians dork around, the Chinese continue apace with their military base construction in the South China Sea and have moved land-based fighter aircraft into several of the new bases. Did I mention that these bases sit astride all the oil shipping routes for South Korea and Japan? Who the U.S. worry?

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