Agreed, the appetite of Western Governments for limiting the PRC's expansion or any form of confrontation is practically non-existent. As someone said many years ago, "You can either do something about it now, or wait until the final cost is exponentially higher.
Freedom of Navigation in SCS international waters has been circumvented simply by unilateral redefinition of land borders. The parallels with events on the Crimean Peninsula suggest similar strategic objectives.
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