Navy to expand its maritime role and rights, while pointing out that plans for modernisation will still take some time to come to fruition, concluding that, although the South China Sea appears high in China's priorities, it seems unlikely that historical claims to power and military adventurism...
The unwavering non-involvement of the PLAN in China’s maritime territorial disputes, even as tensions have risen to boiling point, is a testament to the navy’s professionalization, and a site of consensus among China’s policymakers. The US Department of Defense in 2011 presciently pinpointed...
China's claim and has been conducting freedom of navigation exercises. Several tense standoffs have already threatened to throw the area into conflict, including in 2012 when the Philippines Navy intercepted several Chinese fishermen off Scarborough Shoal. During the 1970s and 1980s, China and Viet...
The United States’ “Pivot to Asia” was the Barack Obama administration’s military, economic and political strategy to deploy more than half the US Navy to the Pacific. The Philippines Tax Reform Acceleration and Inclusion (TRAIN) Law Triggers Mass Poverty. A Calamity Worse Than Yolanda By ...
The US navy says that China is building a "great wall of sand" in the South China Sea, and this is raising serious questions about its intentions in the region, over much of which Beijing claims sovereignty. Speaking at a security conference in Australia, US Pacific...
"China's built up reclaimed islands in the South China Sea in the past year, with aircraft hangers, military barracks and extended runways to the point where China has seven operational bases in the busy international shipping waterway," US Navy Admiral Harry Harris said. ...
The commander of the People's Liberation Army Navy Wu Shengli has stressed that China and the United States have key roles in ensuring peace and stability in the South China Sea, and cooperation between the navies of the two countries is
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"China's built up reclaimed islands in the South China Sea in the past year, with aircraft hangers, military barracks and extended runways to the point where China has seven operational bases in the busy international shipping waterway," US Navy Admiral Harry Harris said. The facilities include...
Can the US tone down to ASEAN’s tune? Posted:May 27, 2014|Author:Andrew Chubb|Filed under:Academic debates,China-ASEAN,China-Australia,China-US,South China Sea|Tags:ASEAN,ASEAN and South China Sea,China-ASEAN,China-Australia relations,China-US relations,China-Vietnam,CNOOC,diplomacy,face,HYSY...