The geopolitical writer Robert Kaplan expounds the theory that the South China Sea is to the Chinese in the twenty-first century what the Caribbean was to the USA at the beginning of the twentieth century. The Americans, having consolidated their land mass, had become a two-ocean power (Atlantic and Pacific), and then moved to control the seas around them, pushing the Spanish out of Cuba. China also intends to become a two-ocean power (Pacific and Indian). To achieve this China is investing in deep-water ports in Myanmar, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Sri
