BEIJING—A U.S. blockade of Chinese-built islands in the South China Sea risks triggering a dangerous military confrontation and would be too costly to sustain long-term, experts warned Thursday after U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for secretary of state proposed such a move. The proposal by Rex Tillerson in his Senate Foreign Relations Committee confirmation hearing Wednesday is likely to have alarmed Chinese leaders as it...

Source: Wall Street Journal January 12, 2017 12:04 UTC