the potential threat to the united states. should we be worried about what's going on in china? >> china is trying to close off the south china sea, international water, disputes a number of countries claim islands. each year there's $5.3 trillion worth of commerce that goes over the south china sea. it's more important than the panama and suez canals combined. what china is doing is building islands from coral reefs. essentially, it wants to put military facilities there. the united states has an interest because although we don't have territoryial claims we have befending since the birs of the republic. >> that may be the involvement. what is going to be the main topic. you have ash carter who is going to be in singapore for the conference coming up. what is that going to be as far as our approach and making sure we are protected in the event that it escalates to that.
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