Nine-day Peace and Friendship drill comes amid rising tension with US over the disputed South China Sea A joint naval exercise to be held this weekend between China, Malaysia and Thailand in the Strait of Malacca would follow US Defence Secretary James Mattis’s visits to Vietnam and Singapore, a trip which began on Monday. China […]
WASHINGTON: The US remains highly concerned with China’s continued militarisation in the disputed South China Sea and its “predatory economic behaviour”, Defense Secretary James Mattis has said. China is engaged in hotly contested territorial disputes in the South China Sea, and with Japan in the East China Sea. Both the areas are stated to be […]
Certain proposals made by contributors to the National Interest are essentially calls to war with China. That would be a clear mistake. Some analysts have a particular flair for proposing U.S. military moves that would goad China into a military confrontation with collateral damage for Asia. To do this consistently probably takes a special mindset […]
BEIJING — A look at recent developments in the South China Sea, where China is pitted against smaller neighbors in multiple disputes over islands, coral reefs and lagoons in waters crucial for global commerce and rich in fish and potential oil and gas reserves: CHINA DEFENDS SHIP CONFRONTATION China’s ambassador to the United States has […]
Beijing’s militarisation of disputed waterway has encouraged greater cooperation among regional players and major powers Defence ministers from the 10 members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) will gather in Singapore for their 12th annual meeting from Thursday to Saturday, along with their counterparts from China, the United States, Australia, India and Japan. […]
The gradual expansion of Chinese power in the South China Sea has caused great alarm. However, it should be less alarming than the looming prospect of a trade war, in which the United States will be fighting alone. A recent near-collision between Chinese and U.S. Navy destroyers has focused new attention on the potential for […]
For years now, China has been at war against the United States in the South China Sea, except Washington didn’t notice until the process was well underway. The Chinese way of war — modeled after the philosopher of middle antiquity, Sun Tzu — is to win without ever having to fight. Thus the Chinese have […]
Beijing (CNN)There is growing realization — and fear — among Chinese officials in Beijing that US President Donald Trump could be serious in his promise to upend the types of bilateral relations they have become accustomed to in the past few decades. It is a shock for Beijing to realize that reports about an administration-wide […]
Southeast Asian countries also cooperating with US and Japan to keep China in check in the region, analysts say The assessment follows Monday’s decision by the Philippines to join a regional military exercise involving China and other Asean countries later this month, and comes days after a Chinese destroyer and an American warship came within […]
Captain Lin Jianchang is a fisherman born and bred. Sitting on his small trawler mending nets, the 54-year-old says times are tough. “When I started to fish we could fill our boat completely in an hour, we couldn’t move, there were fish everywhere,” he says. “Now there’s less fish and it’s rare to get a […]