Senior Fellow Jonas Parello-Plesner discusses his recent trip to the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea aboard a French Naval Warship conducting “freedom of navigation” exercises. China has built extensive artificial islands to house military installations in the Spratly Islands and elsewhere in the South China Sea, and now seeks to claim these areas as sovereign territory. Parello-Plesner discusses with host Brian Blake Chinese intentions in the South China Sea, how neighboring nations and the international community are reacting, and what the future holds.