China’s Art of Strategic Incrementalism in the South China Sea

Reuters
August 8, 2020 Topic: Security Region: Asia Tags: ChinaXi JinpingSouth China SeaStrategyMilitary

China’s Art of Strategic Incrementalism in the South China Sea

Beijing’s aggressive reclamation and militarization of the Spratly Islands and Paracel Islands in 2014 should have immediately made clear that Chinese objectives were not just about fish, gas, and oil.

Joey Wang is a defense analyst in the United States.

They are alumni of the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. The views expressed in this analysis neither represent the official positions of the current or past institutional affiliations nor the respective governments. 

Image: Reuters