China is not giving up their claims to these reefs so this is a confrontation the US should think seriously about. Xi has the total backing of popular opinion in China on this.The danger of war over this real.
Well then its war then if we cant transverse international waters freely and china can stake a claim on anything. This is unacceptable, syria with the russians is questionable, but in this we have to preserve freedom of navigation. If they fire on us their tiny island will cease to exist.