China/South China Sea: By 2030, South China Sea Will Be ‘Virtually a Chinese Lake,’ Study Warns

Jan 20, 2016 | Simon Denyer, Washington Post
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China will have so many aircraft carriers by 2030 that the South China Sea will be “virtually a Chinese lake,” a new U.S. study warns, arguing that the balance of power in the Asia-Pacific region was shifting away from the United States. Meanwhile, President Obama’s strategic “rebalance” to Asia has neither been clearly enough explained nor sufficiently resourced to cope with rising threats from China and North Korea, the report by the Center for Strategic and International Studies found.