WASHINGTON: Beijing is undermining regional security and prosperity as well as challenging international rules and norms by engaging in coercive activities in the South China Sea, US Congressional leaders have said. The leaders asked the Trump administration to ensure freedom of navigation. The South China Sea is a vitally important waterway for global […]
Beijing has a new ship capable of creating artificial islands — potentially the largest of its kind in Asia — raising fears it could be deployed in the tension-laden South China Sea. The world’s second-largest economy is testing a new deep sea dredger, an excavation vessel used for land reclamation, state-run media recently […]
PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte will clarify China’s intentions on the West Philippine Sea, which within the Philippines’ exclusive economic zone, his spokesman said on Saturday. Secretary Harry Roque made the announcement ahead of President Duterte’s bilateral meeting with China’s President Xi Jin Ping at about 6 p.m. or after the conclusion of the Asia […]
China recently launched Asia’s biggest dredging ship, raising fears in Southeast Asia that Beijing will use it to further its claims over disputed territory in the South China Sea. The Tiankun, dubbed by designers as “the magical island maker,” won’t enter service until June of next year, according to China’s official Xinhua news […]
BEIJING (Reuters) – The United States and China had a frank exchange of views on the disputed South China Sea during a visit to Beijing by U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday, U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said. China claims almost the entire strategic waterway through which about $3-trillion worth of goods […]
THE Duterte administration has pursued a foreign policy strategy that has had the beneficial effects of reducing the tension in the South China Sea, restoring good relations between the Philippines and China, and gaining respect for the Philippines’ geopolitical strategic importance in the region. With the Philippines’ chairmanship of Asean coming to an […]
U.S. President Donald Trump said on a visit to Vietnam on Sunday he was prepared to mediate between claimants to the South China Sea, where five countries contest China’s sweeping claims to the busy waterway. Vietnam has become the most vocal opponent of China’s claims and its construction and militarisation of artificial islands in […]
HANOI (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday he was prepared to mediate between claimants to the South China Sea, where five countries contest China’s sweeping claims to the busy waterway. Trump was speaking in Vietnam, which has become the most vocal opponent of China’s claims and its construction and militarization of […]
BEIJING – Forget, for a moment, the prospect of war with nuclear-armed North Korea. What about the prospects for war with nuclear-armed China? As far-fetched as it may sound now, some foreign policy observers fear that the economic rise of China could lead to eventual military conflict with the United States because […]
MANILA, Philippines – US President Donald Trump rejected the militarization of the disputed South China Sea as he makes a historic Asian trip, leading to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit hosted by the Philippines. In a telephonic press briefing on Friday afternoon, November 10, US Ambassador to China Terry Branstad […]