While all eyes have been upon the US election, communist China has been up to its old tricks, or is it new tricks? The communist Chinse have been directing their aggression towards the Philippines, as a bid to gain control of th South China Sea where $ 5 trillion of goods pass each year. The latest: "Manila has been pressured by the PRC to concede its sovereign rights by accepting changes to the "code of conduct" that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has been manipulating in its favor. In the last week, the PRC publicly announced that it had released its delimitation and demarcation "baselines" of what it purports to be its "territorial waters" around Scarborough Shoal, which it illegally seized in 2012. Beijing made this announcement in response to Manila's approval of two laws, the Maritime Zones Act and the Archipelagic Sea Lanes Act, that define the Philippines' sea lanes and maritime zones, to strengthen its alleged "claims" to what are its recognized territorial waters and exclusive economic zones, which have already been formally rejected by the Permanent Court of Arbitration in 2016. In addition to Beijing's political warfare, the CCP continues its aggression against Philippine territory in the kinetic arena, with the ramping up of Chinese Coast Guard and PLA Navy patrols at Sabina and Second Thomas Shoals."
The Biden administration, highly sympathetic to communism, allowed China to play these games of aggression. It is hopeful that Trump will make a last stand against this.