China’s Luconia Shoals Gambit Part of a Larger Picture
South China Sea starts to boil
By: Vivian Louis Forbes and B A Hamzah
The brewing tensions in the Luconia Shoals of the waters of the South China Sea as Chinese Coast Guard vessels harass Malaysian drill rigs and supply ships reflect a troubling enlargement of the contest playing itself out between Washington, DC and Beijing, drawing in the littoral nations lining the sea.
Chinese mar…