Hopefully China is realising based on *gestures at everything else* that they can in fact stand on business with the south china sea and the rest of the world will not implicitly support American primacy in these matters.

Not to say its necessarily an American boat they drove away, the west is always pulling these naval fake-outs for the sake of testing China's response and to generally undermine their legitimacy. It's so provocative.

I'm sure some policy wonk would know better to me its childish and petulant.