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you know, china maintains this expansive claim called the nine-line claim. it s been invalidated by the hague in july 12 but this was outside the nine dash line so this is becoming more and more brazen on the part of the chinese. they apparently believe this device may have trying to track chinese submarines. it doesn t matter. we track their submarines. they track ours. we did this during the cold war with the soviets. that s irrelevant. what s important is that this is outside of china s nine-line claim in international water in the exclusive economic zone of another country, the philippines. so if it is an act of war as you put it should we have responded with more strength at the time and that place? we don t need to go to war. but what we do need is to stop these series of events. we need to start imposing costs on china. those costs can be diplomatic. they can be economic. they can be military. and of course, there s an escalation scale. but we need to do that.