But at a time of a growing perception in the West that China is flexing its muscles …, countries closer to China’s shores also worry that it might be getting more assertive.

The sort of language in use among many of these hydrographic surveyors is sufficient to demonstrate their landlubberliness.

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We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over.