Given half a chance, the Chinese would claim the whole dang world, if they coud get away with it.
Backing them is how we’ll end up having to run it, but they kicked us out of Subic, and they all cheered about it.
Give our squids free boom-boom and we’ll make it explicit.
Let them sweat a bit, I say.
“Tacit backing”, that’s a whole step up from “voting present”!
Obama must be feeling his oats.