china sea. china is militarizing man made islands there is fear this might set off a regional conflict. but there is more drama secretary of defense ash carter now vowing the united states will not back down over military flights in the region. charles krauthammer author of the very best selling book things that matter joins us. nice to see you charles. pleasure to be here. how serious is this chinese dagger rattling. this is dangerous. i don t think the chinese are reckless. they don t want to start a war. they don t want to. their goal is to expel us. we are sort of the people who control the water ways on the specific rim. we have since the second world war. they want us out. they are building all kinds of naval assets. here what they are doing which is sort of unprecedented, other people take territory. the chinese make territory. they claimed the little some of which were under water. they put a lot of sand on them. they create islands and put
china sea. china is militarizing man made islands there is fear this might set off a regional conflict. but there is more drama secretary of defense ash carter now vowing the united states will not back down over military flights in the region. charles krauthammer author of the very best selling book things that matter joins us. nice to see you charles. pleasure to be here. how serious is this chinese dagger rattling. this is dangerous. i don t think the chinese are reckless. they don t want to start a war. they don t want to. their goal is to expel us. we are sort of the people who control the water ways on the specific rim. we have since the second world war. they want us out. they are building all kinds of naval assets. here what they are doing which is sort of unprecedented, other people take territory. the chinese make territory. they claimed the little some of which were under water. they put a lot of sand on them. they create islands and put