Under Covid Cover, China Raises Regional Stakes

As other nations struggle to contain the virus China hatched, Beijing makes aggressive moves

With the world preoccupied with attempts to get the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic under control, Beijing has ignored complaints from littoral nations, steadily expanding its influence across the South China and East China Seas, increasing its overflights over Taiwan, ramming and sinking a Vietnamese fishing boat, declaring two new “districts” in the Sou…