China has already made clear her intention to control the South China Sea. This has alarmed many of her neighbors, who are beginning now to reconstitute their militaries and to develop ententes with one another and with other powers (Vietnam with India and the United States, the Philippines w...
The South China Sea word warPepe Escobar
As one of the world’s most important shipping lanes for oil, minerals and food, whoever dominates the South China Sea will control over a fifth of global trade. But the most significant economic asset up for grabs in the region is Big Data – and the future of...
The USS Harder, a US Navy submarine renowned for sinking most Japanese warships during WWII, has been discovered in the South China Sea after 80 years. According to the Naval History and Heritage Command (NHHC), the wreckage is 3000 feet below the surface of the Philippines’ northern island...
advancing claims than the claimants themselves. Washington even has suggested joint patrols with Japanese ships and planes in the South China Sea, where Tokyo has no claims. The U.S. created particular controversy flying over islands claimed by China, courting a corresponding challenge from the ...
armed fighter aircraft training, it said, over the South China Sea, and claimed they flew out of an unnamed airstrip in those contested waters. The Chinese did not give the specific site, but the runway is believed to be on Woody (Yongxing) Island,according to theSouth China Morning Post....
But the daring 10-day foray into the South China Sea exceeded some of the most optimistic hopes of the American planners by dealing a severe blow to the Japanese ability to supply its war machine; something the Japanese would never fully recover from during the war. As such, the Americans ...
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Morrison disagreed with many in Washington that the United States was in a new Cold War with China. Morrison said the “circumstances are quite different.” He had no answers for how China’s push for power in the South China Sea, on the Indian border and in Hong Kong should be handl...
Susan Thornton, who serves as the acting assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, pointed to the impasse in the South China Sea as an area where the US presence might press Beijing to negotiate with other nations in the region that claim territory in the disputed wat...