“Abominable,” which has nothing to do with the territorial dispute, is about a Chinese girl who helps a yeti get back to its home on Mount Everest. The scene shows a wall map of East Asia with a series of dashes on the South China Sea. An international tribunal in 2016 invalidated China’s vast claims in a case brought by the Philippines, but the ruling was rebuffed by Beijing. China has continued to assert its claims to the sea by building and staffing outposts on man-made islands and deploying ships in the area. “In the Malacca Straits and the South China Sea, the passage of ships is still free without obstruction but once people start sending warship, then we have a problem.

Source: Washington Post October 21, 2019 05:15 UTC