Erik Prince

They were just reefs.

Like at low tide, you'd see one foot of reef or sand sticking out of the ocean, and then at high tide, it goes away.

Then all of a sudden, the Chinese said, oh, you know, let's build something here.

Basically, they built...

Full-on military bases all through the South China Sea.

And in my travels in China, I met the CEO, I was drinking with him one night, of China Harbor and Dredge, the state-owned enterprise that built most of those islands.

And he admitted, he said, it was never in our grand plan

to be able to do these islands.

But we found the Obama administration to be so vapid, so useless that we just said, go.

And they did.

And they built now dozens of bases claiming tens of thousands of square miles of territory now as Chinese territory to the detriment of- The Philippines, Vietnam.

It was a law of the sea trial.

based on 500 years of admiralty law, clearly it was Filipino territory.

Of course.

100%.

And in that, they're doing geoscience exploration.

Playing by what rules?

Correct.

Correct.

And it started with the Obama administration not delivering any consequences.