“The most important thing about the Hainan development is that if you look at the map, there is really nowhere China could go except south,” said Arthur Waldron, an expert at the University of Pennsylvania, referring to the South China Sea and critical sea lanes, including the Strait of Malacca straddling Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore.
“This Hainan facility is going to raise questions in the minds of all of the neighbours because this is a fixed facility and cannot be removed,” Waldron said. “My own sense is that it is going to make ripples and waves.”
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