"...So, in the best tradition of projection, infowar jiujitsu, government-mandated bullsh*t or whatever, we get a cascade of statements, tweets, news articles, and poobah declarations trying to convince us that China is the SCS bad guy.
The purpose is not just to make Team USA look good and China look bad; it’s trying to obscure the US role in a development that is extremely unwelcome in ASEAN: the US and its allies fomenting a security crisis in order to inject US power into the South China Sea, sideline the ASEAN nations, legitimize a US claim as a dominant security provider in the region, and in the process convert the region into a key theater in an upcoming US-China war..."