China’s Grand Delusion: What Beijing *Thinks* It’s Doing
By Just Another First Occupier The Chinese Communist Party likes to tell itself a bedtime story about restoring “historic rights” over the South China Sea — a whole ocean that it claims belongs to China because someone once scribbled a blurry nine-dash line on a map. According to Beijing’s internal narrative, this isn’t about violating laws or bullying neighbors; it’s about reclaiming a glorious…











