Two Chinese (PLAN) aircraft carriers are preparing to conduct a set of provocative war games in the contested waters, near the Taiwan-claimed Pratas Islands, also known as the Dongsha Islands while two Air Force B-1B Lancer bombers flew over the Bien Dong Sea -East Sea (called South China Sea) on Tuesday, the latest in an increasing number of U.S. military demonstrations in the region.

China has once again defied international law by giving names to 80 geographical features in Vietnam’s Hoang Sa (Paracel) and Truong Sa (Spratly) Islands in the latest move to assert its territorial claims in the East Sea (internationally referred to as the South China Sea).