For all the talk of the South China Sea and its territorial disputes calming down, China is still at it, using its favorite spy-and-invasion tool, fishing boats, to take over another country's island. According to an Agence France-Presse report that ran on the Australian News.com.au: There's a new name in the South China Sea's growing list of flashpoints: Thitu Island.  While nowhere near the scale of Fiery Cross or Mischief Reefs, this island and bundle of low-lying sandbars off the Philippines coast is just as significant. It's a prosperous fishing spot.  And it's another potential territorial marker in the hotly contested international waterway. Now, China has physically staked its claim over the sandbars that surround it. Filipino fishermen say they are being driven away from their traditional fishing grounds, by Chinese boats. Here are some maps:  Source: CIA-WFB, with annotation in red by...(Read Full Post)