An astronaut from National Aeronautics and Space Administration has posted on Twitter an image of the Spratlys (Kalayaan Island Group) in the South China Sea (West Philippine Sea) as seen from space. “From @Space_Station looks like a serious expansion project on #SpratlyIslands in the#SouthChinaSea. #YearInSpace,” posted Scott Kelly (@StationCDRKelly) on Twitter at 1:54 a.m. Manila time on Tuesday. It was […]
BEIJING, June 9 (Xinhua) — By devoting part of a summit declaration to alleged tensions on the East and South China Seas, the Group of Seven (G7) is actually seeking to reinforce its waning influence on the world stage, experts said. The paragraphs on the East and South China Seas came as a result of […]
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia will lodge a diplomatic protest against an alleged incursion by a Chinese Coast Guard ship into its waters off Borneo island in the disputed South China Sea, a top naval official said on Tuesday amid a continuing standoff with the vessel. Navy chief Abdul Aziz Jaafar said that since late 2014, intrusions […]
The Journal got the scoop Monday that the Malaysian government will loudly protest the Chinese coast guard’s incursions into its exclusive economic zone. National Security Minister Shahidan Kassim said in an interview that Prime Minister Najib Razak will raise the issue personally with Chinese President Xi Jinping. Read more: http://www.wsj.com/articles/malaysia-wakes-up-to-china-1433892739
Korea is taking no sides amid growing speculation that the United States is pressing Seoul to back its biggest ally in a South China Sea dispute. Washington and Beijing have exchanged words about the latter’s efforts to build artificial islands and military installations in the region that is raising tensions with neighboring countries. Amid the […]
1. Whose South China Sea is it, anyway? China’s claim to the South China Sea is based in history, dating back to records from the Xia and Han dynasties. China delineates its claims via the nine-dash line, which Chiang Kai Shek advanced in 1947. During China’s republican era, China surveyed, mapped and named 291 islands […]
China will continue building islands in the disputed waters of the South China Sea but a major conflict in the region over the dispute is unlikely, according to a State Department security report. “Beijing will continue to develop contested territories in the South China Sea,” says the internal report by the Overseas Security Advisory Council […]
The US secretary of defense, Ashton Carter, has said the US will continue to patrol the South China Sea and fly across the Spratly reefs occupied by China as international waters. It’s clear that the US has determined to push for the “two-state theory” in the region. The US has always tried to avoid touching […]
MUNICH – Leaders of the Group of Seven industrialized nations on Sunday expressed “strong opposition” to massive land reclamation in disputed waters in the South China Sea as part of China’s attempts to change the status quo by force. The leaders also agreed the G-7 will not lift sanctions on Russia unless it fully implements […]
Taiwan and the Philippines are arguing again about fishing rights in overlapping waters of the Western Pacific. But the dispute that netted three Taiwanese boats in the 250-kilometer-wide Luzon Strait last month will stop short of a flare-up like that of two years ago when Manila’s coast guard shot a Taiwanese fisherman to death at […]