Steady pursuit of peace, but ready for anything

Washington deservedly received a warning and reminder from Beijing about the dangers of saber-rattling, after US warplanes conducted what the United States called a freedom of overflight operation near China's Huangyan Islands.

This seems a weird claim since planes of all countries pass through the airspace without any trouble. The same is true of the US' so-called freedom of navigation operations.

The US military appears obsessed with something that is simply not an issue.