U.S. Deploys Marines in South China Sea as Tensions Soar - We Must Show China our Power

The US has deployed Marines in the South China Sea as tensions between Washington and Beijing continue to be on a knife edge.

Revisiting a strategy used in World War Two, the US Marines have been deployed in order to practise their tactic of taking small islands in the region. Deployed on the Japanese island of Iejima, the Marines captured an airfield as they practised their tactic of “securing advanced footholds”. Although the exercise was not an outward show of aggression towards Beijing, US Marine Corps General, Joseph Dunford admitted that it was essential that the US shows its dominance against Asian power.

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