In an editorial on Monday, the Beijing-based Global Times, an organ of the of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), called my May 8 Forbes post Iran Threatens To Close Oil Shipping Lanes, Could Beijing Do Likewise In South China Sea? “non-sense,” while one translation renders the word “ridiculous.” In that post I juxtaposed Iran’s threat from last week to close the Strait of Hormuz, in protest over U.S.-led naval games nearby, to the possibility that China could in the not-too distant future also threaten to close much of the South China Sea. One Chinese university professor scoffed at the notion of China taking such an abrasive action. Zhuang Guoshi, a professor at Huaqiao University, said that ”the ...
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