China declares that the South China Sea is part of its territory. Ian H. McDougall reports.Recent hostile actions by China to exclude other nations from international waters in the South China and Yellow seas indicate the real significance for Australia behind China’s “peaceful rise”.In early May, two Chinese fishing vessels came “dangerously close” to a US military ship in the Yellow Sea off the coast of China, the fifth such incident in the past few months, American cable news channel CNN repo…
