Will there be war in the South China Sea?
Angry Planet
Matthew Gault
4.2 • 898 Ratings
🗓️ 20 May 2016
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
If you’re looking for a place on the globe likely to spark a world war, you could do worse than the South China Sea. The United States, China, Vietnam, Taiwan, the Philippines and Japan all have claims there. China is building artificial islands and the U.S. Navy is patrolling close by. There have been confrontations at sea and in the air. This week on War College, we’re looking at this global sore spot and asking just how heated is the situation likely to get.
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| 0:19.0 | The opinions expressed in this podcast are those of the participants, not of Reuters news. If you think about it, if the United States is unable to help the Philippines to basically fulfill our obligations to the Philippines under our |
| 0:26.6 | 1951 mutual defense treaty China will have discredited that alliance perhaps even broken the alliance and leave the |
| 0:33.7 | Philippines basically with very little option other to then to |
| 0:36.1 | bandwagon with China. If you're looking for a spot on the globe likely to spark a world war, you could do worse than the South China Sea. |
| 0:51.0 | The United States, China, Vietnam, Taiwan, the Philippines, and Japan all have competing claims there. |
| 1:00.0 | China is building artificial islands and the U.S US Navy is patrolling close by. |
| 1:05.2 | There have been confrontations at sea and in the air. |
| 1:08.8 | This week on War College, we're looking at this global sore spot and asking just how heated the situation is likely to get. |
| 1:17.0 | You're listening to War College, a weekly discussion of a world in conflict focusing |
| 1:27.3 | on the stories behind the front lives. |
| 1:30.3 | Here's your host, Jason Fields. |
| 1:33.0 | Hello and welcome to war college. |
| 1:40.0 | Hello and welcome to War College. |
| 1:41.0 | I'm Jason Fields with Reuters. And I'm |
| 1:43.0 | Matthew Gault with Warriss. |
| 1:45.0 | James Holmes is a professor of strategy at the US Naval War College |
| 1:49.0 | and also the co-author of Red Star over the Pacific, which was an Atlantic monthly best book of 2010. |
| 1:56.6 | He's an expert on the South China Sea and what the United States and China are doing there. |
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