China was just uninvited from RIMPAC. Here's why.

Military Times: After years continuing to sail alongside China in the massive Rim of the Pacific naval exercises even as the peer competitor militarized man-made islands in the South China Sea, the U.S. has decided enough is enough, and has rescinded the invite.

“China’s continued militarization of disputed features in the South China Sea only serve to raise tensions and destabilize the region,” Pentagon spokesman Lt. Col. Chris Logan said Wednesday. “As an initial response to China’s continued militarization of the South China Sea we have disinvited the PLA Navy from the 2018 Rim of the Pacific Exercise.”

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