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, by SHI Jiangtao
• Luo Zhaohui, deputy foreign minister for Asian affairs, makes remarks ahead of crucial talks on a code of conduct for the disputed waterway
• He also takes aim at Washington’s partners in the Indo-Pacific, describing the Quad alliance as ‘an anti-China front line’
Beijing has dialled up (...)
, by KOH Collin, LU Zhenhua, Reuters, XIN Zhou
The US officials said the Higgins guided-missile destroyer and the Antietam, a guided-missile cruiser, came within 12 nautical miles of the Paracel Islands, and China said it has responded to the ‘provocation’.
In a statement, the Chinese ministry said it has sent ships and aircraft to warn the (...)
, by Al Jazeera
More than 10,000 personnel, 76 fighter jets and 48 warships took part in the exercises attended by President Xi Jinping.
Chinese President Xi Jinping has overseen what is being labelled as the country’s largest naval military drill in the contested South China Sea.
Clad in military fatigues (...)
, by Reuters
China has built new military facilities on islands in the South China Sea, a US think tank reported on Thursday, a move that could raise tensions with Washington, which has accused Beijing of militarizing the vital waterway.
The Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative (AMTI), part of (...)
, by Reuters
China, in an early test of US President Donald Trump, is nearly finished building almost two dozen structures on artificial islands in the South China Sea that appear designed to house long-range surface-to-air missiles, two US officials told Reuters.
The development is likely to raise (...)
, by TISDALL Simon
Ostensibly civilian fishermen are ‘buzzing’ US navy ships and those of neighbouring countries with rival territorial claims.
China is using large numbers of irregular maritime militias, dubbed “little blue men”, to assert and expand its control over an increasingly large area of disputed and (...)
, by NEHRU Vikram
Tensions continue to rise in the South China Sea following the Obama administration’s foreign policy ‘pivot’ toward Asia late last year.
There are many reasons for the pivot, but a principal motivation was to protect the freedom of navigation in the Malacca Straits and the South China Sea.
The (...)
, by BRENNAN Elliot
Sovereignty over the Spratly and Paracel Islands in the South China Sea is continually cited as one of the most important security issues for the 21st century. That body of water is believed to contain significant reserves of deep-sea minerals and hydrocarbons; some estimates compare the (...)
, by BELLO Walden
Beijing is trumpeting a new free trade deal with its neighbours, but Walden Bello argues that the benefits are all likely to flow in one direction.
On 1 January 2010, the China-ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) Free Trade Area went into effect. Touted as the world’s biggest Free (...)
, by Saw Yan Naing
China is still providing military arms to the Burmese government, including a recent shipment of artillery cannons that were seen crossing the China-Burmese border on November 6, according to sources who observed the shipment.
The arms shipment was made in daylight despite strong international (...)
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