Making Mischief.

Alexander the Great should have dried his tears and created more worlds to conquer!

Mischief Reef: it conjures turquoise lagoons, pounding surf and hidden pirate coves where devious men do dirty deeds. As things stand, it's aptly named.  What used to be just a small reef in the Spratly Islands (recognized by international law as belonging to the Philippines) has been fashioned into a semi-habitable atoll of dredged sand complete with a fully habitable fort that - if China has their way (and no one seems prepared to stop them) - will be one more defensible position in their creeping domination of the South China Sea.  It's subtly similar to Hitler sneaking his troops into the Rhineland in clear violation of the Treaty of Versailles, pausing for a bit to gauge the reaction of France and Britain and, finding them distracted by the Abyssinian crisis, commencing to unleash hell. Keep an eye on China - in fact, now might be a good time to brush up on your Mandarin. They say they only want what's theirs but their actions say they want what's yours, too. Their numbers say they just might get it.