While the world fixates on the fluctuating prospects for a US-China trade war, a Trump-Kim summit or the Iran nuclear deal, Beijing has been working diligently away, steadily asserting its growing maritime power in East Asia.
Just last week, China sent long-range bombers to a base in the Paracels, and before that, for the first time, it reportedly deployed anti-ship and anti-aircraft missiles on several of its new and highly contentious island bases in the Spratlys.
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