21. Prepare to deal with Japan two-handed, we will not actively provoke armed confrontation but if Japan does then we will take a hardline stance and make them feel more pain than us in order to avoid an even greater conflict. 22. This year there have been marines on board CMS Haijian...
The report concluded that Japan has strengthened its defense in its southwest islands and was preparing to take over the Diaoyu Islands by force in the future and intervening in any potential conflict in the Taiwan Straits. Luo Yuan himself was quoted: “We need to prepare for the worst [situ...
“If China and the Philippines can reach an agreement on the exploration and development of oil and gas resources in the South China Sea, it will be a breakthrough in economic cooperation in the region and will largely promote the safety of the Asia-Pacific,” Gu said. Growth prospects The...
The South China Sea: A Crucible of Regional Cooperation or Conflict-Making Sovereignty Claims?, by C. J. Jenner and Tran Truong Thuy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. v+370 pp. A$180.00 (cloth).We present and discuss measurements of the gas-phase metallicity gradient in ...
But China made no moves in that direction. In fact it did the opposite and de-escalated the conflict, releasing all the prisoners from the Paracels within a few weeks and silencing the nationalist rhetoric. But the Communist North Vietnamese leadership (which had been publicly silent about ...
Taylor Fravel Since 2009, the competition for maritime rights in the South China Sea has emerged as the most important security issue in East Asia. Indeed, one analyst even declared recently that the South China Sea is the "new central theater of conflict" in the world.1 Yet despite ...
“That’s a tiny country between China and India,” I explained to the befuddled voice on the other end and then without pause added the tried and true clincher: “It’s the country of Mt. Everest.” Sometimes, I feel tempted to skip the obvious and instead to share my favorite, ...
As explained below, the parallels between this area and others where China has objected — sometimes by coercive means — to Vietnamese oil and gas activities, make the latest move a good opportunity to grasp an important aspect of the PRC’s position in these disputes, and pin down some ...
This too may be explained by the commercial imperative to play up the conflict and create a dramatic crisis narrative of China being encroached upon from all sides. But putting such menacing words into other countries’ mouths like this seems very irresponsible for aPeople’s Daily-owned, Beijin...
If you wish to understand the roots of conflicts around the world, follow the money trail. Ask yourself: who benefits from this conflict? The genocide is Palestine is no exception to this rule. To what extent is it driven by the discovery of trillions of dollars of gas in the eastern med...