Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Chen Xiaodong and Philippine Foreign Undersecretary Maria Theresa Lazaro co-chaired the meeting. The two sides had a candid and constructive exchange of views on the situation in the South China Sea.At the meeting, China lodged solemn representations with the Philippines...
accusation that China's military drill destabilizes the situation in the region on Friday. In response to U.S. Defense Department's "concerns" over China's military drills in the region, the Chinese Foreign Ministry asserted that holding military drills in the South Ch...
They made the remarks during a panel discussion at the Boao Forum for Asia Annual Conference 2024 in Boao, Hainan province, after they agreed that as a geopolitical hot spot, the South China Sea situation is evolving in...
In recent years, international observers have highlighted the interplay between the United States and China about the South China Sea situation, including statements made by senior diplomats from the two nations at the Association of Southeast Asian Nation (ASEAN) Regional Forum (ARF) meeting in ...
Instead, the United States has only been making the situation more volatile.Since China was identified as a strategic rival of the US, successive US administrations have not only used the South China Sea disputes as a ready excuse for the US to beef up its military presence and maintain an ...
However, the experts also said they believe the situation in the South China Sea is far less tense than claimed by some countries and portrayed by some media organizations. "It is the United States that poses the greatest threat to the freedom of navigation and overflight in the South China ...
The report was released by the Beijing-based think tank South China Sea Strategic Situation Probing Initiative and focused on the navigation and overflight in the South China Sea. According to the report citing public statistics, nearly 500,000 commercial vessels pass through the South China Sea an...
The Philippines breached the understanding between the two sides on properly handling the situation on Ren’ai Jiao. The Philippines promised it will not reinforce the grounded warship and will inform China in advance of resuppl...
The situation in the South China Sea is not as unstable as is often claimed, the Chinese ambassador said, arguing that the only way to a proper settlement is through negotiation and consultation on the basis of the free will and sovereign equality of the parties concerned, which is exactly ...
The so-called South China Sea arbitration is just a start key for the United States having ulterior motives to agitate the South China Sea situation to reinforce its hegemony. The superpower has always been trying to maintain its hegemony around the world, including the Asia-Pacific region, and...