The magazine article, quoting Zhang, reported that the cabbage strategy involved “surrounding a contested area with so many boats – fishermen, fishing administration ships, marine surveillance ships, navy warships.” The island “is thus wrapped layer by layer like a cabbage,” Zhang reportedly said in a television interview given in May. In the story entitled “A Sea of Trouble,” with the second heading “A Game of Shark and Minnow,” the NYT described the old, rusting Sierra Madre ship that the Philippine government ran aground on Ayungin Shoal in 1999 as an unlikely battleground in a geopolitical struggle that will shape the future of the South China Sea and, to some extent, the rest of the world. The magazine said it was hard to imagine how anyone could live in the Sierra Madre or how such a forsaken place could become a flash point in a geopolitical power struggle. Headlines ( Article MRec ), pagematch: 1, sectionmatch: 1 “There is no question” that the cabbage strategy is now being employed in Ayungin, called Ren’ai Shoal by the Chinese, the NYT reported.
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