US South China Sea patrols have complex aims
US naval patrols in the South China Sea mark a new stage in a long political and legal battle
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- Freedom of navigation threatened?
- China-US disagreement
- Right to innocent passage
- Military surveillance
- Subi Reef
- China's response
- Next stop: Mischief Reef?
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_350.jpg "The US Navy guided-missile destroyer USS Lassen (Reuters/CPO John Hageman)")