China has embarked on huge projects where it is creating artificial islands in the sea, in what are known as land reclamation projects. U.S-China Spar Over New Islands "...underlines the global importance of the South China Sea through which one third of the world's trade passes through ...
Major disputes in the South China Sea are putting critical habitat—and the food supply of millions—at risk.
The whole region should keep alert to whom will benefit from confrontation among South China Sea stakeholders. As one of the US’ allies in Southeast Asia, the Philippines will always be a tool of the West to instigate provocations in the waters. After twists and turns, Philippine society will...
“The most likely and most appropriate method for China’s territorial sea baselines in the Spratly Islands is to imitate the method used in the Diaoyu Islands, for example, taking the main islands and reefs such as Itu Aba, Pagasa, West York, Spratly and Mischief as the centre, and linkin...
The PLA's anti-access/area-denial (A2/AD) capabilities are, to date, the most robust within the First Island Chain, although the PLA is increasingly able to project power into the Philippine Sea and the PRC seeks to strengthen its capabilities to reach farther into the Pacific Ocean. – ...
This island reclamation is the latest in a long line of measures China has taken since the early 1980s to strengthen its presence in the Spratly Islands, which it views as crucial due to their proximity to China’s sea approaches, as well as present (fisheries) and future (energy) resource...
The SCS issue has taken a dramatic turn over the past few months, with China’s assertive actions reaching an all-time high. Alongside its “salami slicing” strategy, executed through island reclamation and militarisation, China is making incremental domestic institutional changes to strengthen its ...
As for the land reclamation in the South China Sea which is of interest to some countries, it is nothing new and does not start with China. In other words, people have been bringing changes to the “status quo” all these years. It was only recently t...
which, according to a top legislator in attendance, was “a political statement of sorts”, even as China fortified its position on the disputed land feature, which wouldeventually turn into a massive islandhosting both civilian and military facilities following reclam...
►Recommended sites after rain to go: Tianmen Mountain, West Sea and other parts of Wulingyuan. ►When climbing up to the mountain, the temperature will be about about 3-5 ℃ lower than the mountain foot areas. It is better to take some thick clothes there. ...