Philippines navy completes resupply mission after Chinese blockade

PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
..."A small contingent of military have for years been based on the rusty ship at the shoal to assert the Philippines' claim to sovereignty in the area.
President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday told a summit hosted by Chinese President Xi Jinping that he "abhors" what took place at the shoal last week and that the rule of law was the only way out of "colossal" rows in the South China Sea.
China claims the majority of the South China Sea as its own, using a "nine-dash line" on maps that an arbitration tribunal in 2016 ruled had no basis under international law.
It has for years deployed hundreds of vessels in big clusters to reinforce its claim."...

China is just being plain stupid. None of this is necessary.

We need to get together with China, Russia, Europe and the Middle East and the rest of Asia and the Americas and everybody spend their normal amount on defense and unilaterally work together with all their soldiers to clean the oceans of the world for a year and have everyone agree, no war for "one" year, and just see how it goes.