 naming john and gordon well what we're seeing is just the continuation of the chinese communist party's grand strategy their maritime sovereignty campaign to take control of the entirety of the south china sea what they used to call the nine dash line they're now using ten dash line in their in their doctor in their paperwork uh... or the cow's tongue as some others have referred to it but that is their uh... stated goal uh... they in twenty sixteen were rebuked essentially by the