HONG KONG – For a country that believes strongly in noninterference in other countries’ internal affairs, China, oddly, is constantly telling other countries what they can and cannot talk about. Last week, China again was putting on the pressure, this time on Japan, host of the Group of Seven foreign ministers’ meeting last Sunday and […]
Beijing is using the country’s fisherman as the advance guard to press its expansive territorial claims, experts … Beijing is using the country’s fisherman as the advance guard to press its expansive territorial claims, experts say. Photo by Adam Dean for The Washington Post Chinese fishermen muscling in on Filipino fishing grounds South China Sea: […]
US, Philippines launch joint South China Sea patrols MANILA – The US said Thursday it has launched joint South China Sea patrols with the Philippines, and will temporarily deploy 275 troops and five warplanes in the country which is locked in a territorial row with China. US Navy personnel raise their flag during a bilateral […]
Taiping Island is the largest naturally formed island in the Nansha chain and boasts freshwater, a permanent contingent of Coast Guard Administration personnel and infrastructure like a hospital, airport and wharf. (Courtesy of CGA) President Ma Ying-jeou called for peaceful resolution of South China Sea disputes through negotiations April 14, urging proper recognition of Taiping […]
FILE – Filipino student activists set fire mock Chinese ships to protest recent island-building and alleged militarization by China off the disputed Spratlys group of islands in the South China Sea, in Manila, March 3, 2016. FILE – Filipino student activists set fire mock Chinese ships to protest recent island-building and alleged militarization by China […]
CORRECTION: A previous version of this post had attributed comments made by Justin Nankivell with the Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies on April 14, 2016 to James Kraska of the U.S. Naval War College. The post as been amended to reflect the change. With the United States and the Philippines now conducting […]
The foreign ministers of the Group of Seven major countries are expected to take up issues in the South China Sea at their meeting in Hiroshima from Sunday, despite China’s opposition to such talks, a U.S. Department of State spokesman said Friday. Such issues are “important to the stability of the region, so I would […]
A forum held in Sydney last Saturday was billed as a chance to “clarify facts and standardise understanding” about the maritime territorial dispute to Australia’s north. An official news report of the gathering, written in Chinese and translated for the ABC’s AM program, said the aims of convening the forum “were to unify thoughts through […]
The Group of Seven industrialized countries (G7) Foreign Ministers have released a statement airing concern on the situation in West Philippine Sea and East China Sea. The G7 ministers – composed of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States (European Union is also represented in the G7) – noted China’s […]
SAN FERNANDO CITY, April 11 – The Philippine government expects an international tribunal hearing an arbitration case it filed to invalidate China’s claims in the South China Sea to issue a decision in the coming weeks. Department of Foreign Affairs Spokesperson Charles Jose said the United Nations Permanent Court of Arbitration in the Hague will […]