In his address to a training session for young leaders at the Central Party School on September 3, Xi Jinping spoke of the immense challenges facing the country and the Chinese Communist Party. The language he chose, however, was not “challenge,” “test” or “obstacle.” He spoke instead of “struggle,” or douzheng (斗争), a word […]

  Britain has been warned by China that the deployment of HMS Queen Elizabeth to the South China Sea could be viewed as a “hostile action”. The MoD plans to send Britain’s new aircraft carrier to the Asia Pacific region on her first operational deployment, due in 2021. The government is keen to assert freedom […]

  New Delhi and Moscow have agreed to launch a sea route that will extend from Vladivostok, a major port city in Eastern Russia, to Chennai, on the Bay of Bengal in eastern India. The agreement, made under a “memorandum of understanding” signed by both countries, could present a challenge to China as the maritime […]

China’s ambassador to the UK has accused British politicians of exhibiting a “colonial mindset” when they express support for demonstrators in Hong Kong or raise concerns about Huawei or freedom of navigation in the South China Sea. Liu Xiaoming said British MPs were free to express their opinion about the Hong Kong crisis but needed […]

  PRESIDENT RODRIGO DUTERTE and Chinese leader Xi Jinping have both agreed to further strengthen bilateral ties and push for peace, development and cooperation between the two countries. Xi recently met with Duterte at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing, and the two leaders expressed their readiness to push forward ties. “Under the two sides’ […]

  Hanoi (VNA) – There has been widespread international condemnation of China’s illegal activities in the Tu Chinh reef, international known as Vanguard Bank, in Vietnam’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ) in the East Sea (internationally known as South China Sea). In his writing posted on Eurasia Review, Indonesian senior journalist Veeramalla Anjaiah voiced objection to […]

  Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte acknowledged that he is running out of options in his efforts to press Beijing to adhere to an arbitration decision that favoured Manila in its dispute with Beijing over claims in the South China Sea. Speaking at a news conference on September 4, 2019, Duterte even asked reporters if they […]

  Before his 5th trip to China for bilateral talks, President Duterte said he will bring up the arbitral ruling on the South China Sea dispute to Chinese President Xi Jinping, and he did just that. Duterte has been visiting the country annually but it seems that not much has changed as more issues continue […]

  MANILA — The Philippines has protested China’s incursions into the West Philippine Sea about 60 times since President Duterte assumed office in 2016, Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. said Wednesday. These instances include 39 notes verbale to Beijing, Locsin told the House appropriations committee during a hearing on the Department of Foreign Affairs’ […]

ImagePresident Xi Jinping reviewed the Chinese military’s fleet in the South China Sea last year. TAIPEI, Taiwan — If the United States gets embroiled in a war with China, it may begin with the lights going out here in Taipei. Tensions are rising across the Taiwan Strait, and there’s a growing concern among some security […]