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July 30, 2012

China's Gunboat Diplomacy

Michael Richardson, Japan Times

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China's recent actions in asserting its claims to ownership and other forms of jurisdiction over about 80 percent of the South China Sea speak louder than its oft-repeated soothing words that it is not seeking hegemony.

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