(4) James Webb, The South China Sea's Gathering Storm; All of East Asia is waiting to see how the U.S. will respond to China's aggression. Wall Street Journal, Aug 20, 2012 (op-ed). http://online.wsj.com/article/SB ... 87483914661256.html
("For all practical purposes China has unilaterally decided to annex an area that extends eastward from the East Asian mainland as far as the Philippines, and nearly as far south as the Strait of Malacca. China's new 'prefecture' is nearly twice as large as the combined land masses of Vietnam, South Korea, Japan and the Philippines")
Note: Jim Webb http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Webb
(1946- ; United States Secretary of the Navy 1987-1988; US senator (D-Virginia) 2007-2013 to retire after one term)