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Conservation is China’s newest weapon in the South China Sea
China’s plan to turn a destroyed reef into a marine reserve exposes how green rhetoric is being used to mask coercion in the South China Sea.
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An aerial view over the Scarborough Shoal in the disputed South China Sea.
PHOTO: AFP
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The scars of the sea were visible from space.
Arc-shaped gouges carved by steel propellers, entire coral beds smothered by sediment plumes, and at least 1,900 acres of reef laid to waste – all within the ring of Scarborough Shoal, once a thriving marine ecosystem in the South China Sea.
