many of the fishermen who sail to scarborough shoal sell their catch in local markets like this one in a box box in the unit the fish used to be delivered to us in crates now fisherman just come and bring supplies in bales it takes about 5 fishermen for us to have this much to sell and the price of fish has tripled filipinos here tell us they find it ironic that they live in a country rich in maritime resources and yet the majority of them can't to regularly afford even just a kilo of fish they welcome the u.s. is backing with cautious optimism but they know that help should come from their own government 1st. so are overfishing and china's claims to the south china sea mean for future catches and tension in the region well to answer this i'm joined by top of a great smattering of the chief executive of the china ocean institute good to have you with us so is china 1st of all soley responsible for overfishing in the seas no a lot of china's neighbors have big fishing industries and japan was the 1st country to have a large industrial fleet and the 1st bilateral agreements in the 1950 s

in 2012, china took control of a coral atoll called scarborough shoal off the coast of the philippinesthese are places where the chinese have been doing... in 2016, we flew over a place called mischief reef, to film the massive construction effort going on there. captainjames finnell was the head of the us naval intelligence in the pacific and he watched it happening with growing frustration. what happened at scarborough shoal from april to june 2012 was america's biggest foreign policy failure in asia since our helicopters took off the roofs of those embassy buildings in saigon in 1975. it was a disaster, and it really had a debilitating impact on america's national credibility in asia when we didn't do anything to defend the philippines. but experts say, for china's president xijinping, the south china sea isjust the beginning. his ultimate goal is taiwan, a vibrant democracy of 24 million people. it almost doesn't matter very much what taipei or washington will do about taiwan's security. xijinping wants taiwan back and xijinping wants taiwan back before he hands over power to whoev

in 2012, china took control of a coral atoll called scarborough shoal off the coast of the philippinesse have been doing. in 2016, we flew over a place called mischief reef, to film the massive construction effort going on there. captainjames finnell was the head of the us naval intelligence in the pacific and he watched it happening with growing frustration. what happened at scarborough shoal from april to june 2012 was america's biggest foreign policy failure in asia since our helicopters took off the roofs of those embassy buildings in saigon in 1975. it was a disaster, and it really had a debilitating impact on america's national credibility in asia when we didn't do anything to defend the philippines. but experts say, for china's president xijinping, the south china sea isjust the beginning. his ultimate goal is taiwan, a vibrant democracy of 24 million people. it almost doesn't matter very much what taipei or washington will do about taiwan's security. xi jinping wants taiwan back and xi jinping wants taiwan back before he hands over power to whoever comes next. the headaches for

what happened at scarborough shoal was america's biggest foreign policy failure in asia since our helicoptersse embassy buildings in saigon in 1975. it was a disaster, and it really had a debilitating impact on america's national credibility in asia when we didn't do anything to defend the philippines. but experts say, for china's president xi jinping, the south china sea is just the beginning. has ultimate goal is taiwan, a vibrant democracy of 2a million people. it almost doesn't matter very much what taipei or washington will do about taiwan's security. xi jinping wa nts taiwan's security. xi jinping wants taiwan back and xi jinping wants taiwan back before he hands over power to whoever comes next. the headaches for the next us president do not end there. this is north korea's latest mega missile, revealed at a huge parade on october the 10th. of huge parade on october the 10th. of pyongyang's nuclear ambitions are not stopped, some think others in asia could go nuclear, even south korea and pan. they are concerned about a future east asian order that has both china, russia, and north kor