Pentagon Weigh Plans to Confront China’s Island Building in Spratlys

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Adam Entous, Gordon Lubold and Julian E Barnes, 美军方考虑对抗中国在南中国海的领土主张. 华尔街日报, May 13, 2015.
cn.wsj.com/gb/20150513/bgh110143.asp

, which is translated from

Adam Entous, Gordon Lubold and Julian E Barnes, US Weighs Plan to Confront China. Wall Street Journal, May 13, 2015 (front page).
www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-militar ... a-claims-1431463920

two consecutive paragraphs:

"Defense Secretary Ash Carter has asked his staff to look at options that include flying Navy surveillance aircraft over the islands and sending US naval ships to within 12 nautical miles of reefs that have been built up and claimed by the Chinese in an area known as the Spratly Islands.

"Such moves, if approved by the White House, would be designed to send a message to Beijing that the US won’t accede to Chinese territorial claims to the man-made islands in what the US considers to be international waters and airspace.

My comment: There is no need to read the rest of this short report.