Tuesday, January 24, 2012

The South China Sea Is A Mess And The US Needs To Get In The Game

Jana Kasperkevic and Robert Johnson

Economies with over 3 billion people ship goods to the U.S. via the South China Sea.
India, China, and chunks of Southeast Asia all push ships through the sea, which acts as kind of a funnel for cargo destined to the West Coast of the United States.

These crowded trade routes sit atop supposedly massive oil and natural gas deposits, with more than half-a-dozen countries holding legitimate claims to overlapping sites.
 

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