by force, saying amphibious landings were notoriously difficult and there was a lot of ambiguity about how the United States would respond.The US national security adviser warned China on Wednesday against any attempt to takeTaiwan Robert O’Brien told an event at the University of Nevada in Las Vegas that China was engaged in a massive […]

BRITAIN, France and possibly Germany are preparing strategies to keep an eye on China in the disputed South China Sea. The European powers are considering how to increase their presence in the contested South China Sea as tensions over the waters has continued to remain high. Britain and France are permanent members of the United […]

Canada’s defence minister Harjit Sajjan has said that NATO needs to “monitor” China’s activities as the actions that it has been “demonstrating in the South China Sea are obviously concerning”. Sajjan made these observations while participating in a panel discussion titled A Compass of Stability – NATO’s Ageless Utility, organised by the GLOBSEC Bratislava Forum, […]

The demolition of a US-funded building at Cambodia’s Ream Naval Base has heightened concerns China will use the facility for access to the South China Sea from the Gulf of Thailand. The razing of the building, revealed in new satellite imagery released by the Centre for Strategic and International Studies’ Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative, is […]

Chinese President Xi Jinping’s reckless “Wolf Warrior” political and military policies, along with China’s perceived mishandling of the Covid-19 outbreak, appear to have seriously dented the nation’s image internationally, according to a new survey. Views of China have grown more negative in recent years across many advanced economies, and unfavorable opinion has soared over the […]

CHINA’s new world order plan envisages Beijing at the centre of the world surrounded by subordinate countries that would “have liberal democratic values and principles suppressed” claims a new report. The October 2020 report from the National Bureau of Asian Research, conducted Nadège Rolland, warns China’s expansionism, “puts at risk not only the predominant US […]

For nearly two decades, diplomats from Southeast Asian countries and China have met to discuss the implementation of a “code of conduct” for the South China Sea. The goal of that code is to manage the tensions that may arise from disputes between the region’s claimants, including Brunei, China, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan, Vietnam, and […]

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s South China Sea policy is becoming less conciliatory toward China, as he tries to balance growing pressure from within his administration to revitalize Manila’s security cooperation with the United States against the need to preserve his country’s economic ties with Beijing. The Duterte administration has recently made a number of statements […]

Let’s begin with this opener of Rappler’s report in Rappler.com on Sept. 23, 2020: “President Duterte dropped a bombshell by raising, in an unprecedented move, the Philippines legal victory against China in a UN forum. …‘The award is now part of international law, beyond compromise and beyond the reach of passing governments to dilute, diminish […]

  WASHINGTON — Weeks after India and China engaged in their deadliest border clash in decades, the sight of an American nuclear-powered aircraft carrier entering the Bay of Bengal drew attention across the region. The carrier, Nimitz, and its strike group deployed to the area in mid-July to conduct an exercise with the Indian Navy […]