China is entitled to strengthen its defenses on islands in the disputed South China Sea but those measures aren't directed at any specific countries, a defense ministry spokesman said Tuesday, amid the latest surge in tensions in the crucial waterway.Harika...
China claims virtually the entire South China Sea and has carried out extensive land reclamation work on many of the islands and reefs it claims, equipping some with air strips and military installations that have alarmed rival claimant countries and Western governments led by the U...
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The South China Sea, famous for its commerce, abundant fishing grounds, and massive reservoirs of oil and natural gas, is now known as something else entirely: a chessboard for the struggle between the United States and China. China’s military expansion into the sea is taking pla...
China's relevant activities in the South China Sea are justified, lawful and beyond reproach, he said, while rebuking "certain non-regional country" for frequently sending military vessels and aircraft to the South China Sea to flex muscles, gathering its allies to build up "small cliques" agai...
Undeniably, the US’s policies and movements which involve military force and tactics have heated up the tactical confrontation and strategic competition between China and the US, and will lead certain disputants to implement unilateral offshore oil and gas resource exploitation plans, but they can ...
The head of the U.S. military's Pacific Command, Admiral Harry Harris has repeatedly warned in the past year about China's continued military build-up or "militarization" of the South China Sea. In October, a US Navy destroyer sailed close to Woody Island in what the...
military parade. I remember a few years ago, there’s a big military parade in Beijing for the honoring the fight back against the Japanese army, a successful fight back, where China was able to withstand the Japanese a...
Rather than pursuing a robust military build-up,... I Gindarsah - The South China Sea Disputes 被引量: 1发表: 2017年 Maritime CBMs as Soft Deterrence in Northeast Asia: A Sea of Paradox and its Remedies Sources of conflict exist in Northeast Asian waters, ranging from maritime territorial...
In the past, Duterte has repeatedly said he will raise the sea dispute at the proper time and avoided the issue when Manila hosted two regional meetings this year. The United States has criticized China's construction of islands and its build-up of military facilities in the ...