Randy Forbes: “The delay to the response of those forces absolutely increases the risk, the timelines you are on, and ultimately gets…”

I do not see it as inevitable that we will have a confrontation with China in the South China Sea if we have the correct strategy to avoid such confrontation and potential conflict.

The threats to freedom of navigation that emanate from the South China Sea and reverberate globally are a great enough threat to the United States.

There is no legal authority to draw a big circle in the water a thousand miles long and then claim it as some sort of special zone or internal waters.

I think reasonable people can have different views on it. My perspective is that the benefits of the Law of the Sea Convention do outweigh any sort of perceived risks.