After ships and planes, Beijing sends singers to assert claims in South China Sea

BEIJING // China's military has dispatched ships and planes — even constructed new islands to assert its maritime claims. Now it's deploying a new set of tools to uphold Chinese sovereignty: magicians, singers and actors. Famed singer of patriotic anthems Song Zuying headlined a tour of China's man-made islands in the South China Sea's Spratly Islands this week, underscoring Beijing's confidence in asserting its increasingly dominant...