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...
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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 USS Spruance was one of the warships which conducted the operation, which illustrates the continuing U.S. military presence in the area, to which China routinely objects. (Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Michael K. McNabb / U.S. Navy) Cmdr. Clay Doss, U.S. Seventh Fleet...
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 Pacifi...
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
would bring about negat ive influence on the peaceful solution of the disputes.We should pay close atte ntion to the armament movements in Southeast Asian countries,reinforce the mode rnization of PLA's navy,and resolutely guard PRC's sovereignty and the other legal rights in South China Sea....
The U.S. Commerce Department estimated that the United States exported $79 billion in goods to the countries around the South China Sea in 2013, and imported $127 billion from them that year. Including goods simply passing through, Navy Adm. Robert Willard estimated in 2011 that the region ...
A U.S. Navy warship on Friday passed through waters claimed by China near disputed islands in the South China Sea, the Defense Department said, drawing Chinese condemnation.
The US Navy (USN) carried out a freedom-of-navigation operation (FONOP )in disputed waters of the South China Sea (SCS) on 24 May, US media have reported: the first such challenge to Beijing's claims in the area by the new US administrat... G Dominguez - 《Janes Defence Weekly》 被...