THE NAME GAME: Indonesia responds to China’s absurd claims in the South China Sea by referring to a sea area northwest of Borneo as the North Natuna Sea.

The renamed tract is near the Natuna Islands, an Indonesian chain of 272 maritime features, and overlaps the southernmost part of China’s so-called “nine-dash line” claim extending from its south coast.

This is diplomatic push back but push is on the way to becoming shove. The article notes that Chinese fishermen routinely violate Indonesian waters and claim they are fishing in a “traditional fishing ground.”