In a commentary, Collin Koh, a research fellow at RSIS, said that there is probably less concern over China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA)’s Navy’s build-up per se, than over what Beijing is actually doing in those contentious waters – notably, its extensive militarisation efforts.

…Collin Koh is research fellow with the Maritime Security Programme at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.