If Xi Jinping isn’t positioning himself and his nation to rectify the issue of Taiwan once and for all, then who will? Much is made of China’s obsessive need to “redress a national humiliation,” as a banner around a watch tower on the Great Wall trumpeted shortly before the handover of Hong Kong back to […]
The Chinese People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) and Russian Navy for the first time conducted a joint sea-based live-fire air defense exercise involving two surface combatants on May 4, according to Chinese media reports. The Global Times reports that the air defense drill involved the launch of surface-to-air missiles against mock anti-ship cruise missile […]
This is an OZY Special Briefing, an extension of the Presidential Daily Brief. The Special Briefing tells you what you need to know about an important issue, individual or story that is making news. Each one serves up an interesting selection of facts, opinions, images and videos in order to catch you up and […]
CLARK, Philippines—Vince Dizon makes sure his guests take in the view from his ninth-story office before they leave. A set of windows looks out over a hazy, expansive airfield that was the center of the United States’ largest overseas military base, until it was handed back to the Philippines in 1991. The concrete skeleton […]
May 6, two US warships trespassed in the adjacent waters of Nanxun Jiao and Chigua Jiao of China’s Nansha Islands without the Chinese government’s permission. This was the third provocation this year by US warships in the South China Sea. Every time it was carried out under the banner of the so-called freedom of […]
The Navy conducted the latest freedom of navigation operation in the contested South China Sea on Monday, sending two guided missile destroyers near the Spratly Islands. “The guided missile destroyers USS Preble and USS Chung Hoon conducted a freedom of navigation operation in the South China Sea May 6,” said Lt. Cmdr. Tim Gorman, […]
The Supreme Court has had a mixed record in its orders related to protecting the environment. In April 2012, it issued a writ of kalikasan, stopping a multibillion-peso project to reclaim Manila Bay. The area covered by the special order has since been declared as a protected wetland – the last of its kind […]
CHINA’s bitter row with the US over nuclear arms intensified after it refused to discuss disarmament plans with their rivals or Russia. Beijing claimed it would not take part in the negotiations surrounding the limiting of nuclear arms between the three countries. US President Donald Trump said he and Russian President Vladimir Putin had talked […]
CHINA’s Navy is becoming more powerful as it “continues to develop into a global force”. The country’s navy are able to project its power beyond the coast, the Pentagon’s annual report revealed. The intelligence experts added China is reaching beyond East Asia. The Pentagon believes China’s first domestically produced aircraft carrier will enter service by […]
Beijing – China said US warships sailed near disputed islands in the South China Sea without permission on Monday in the latest US challenge to Beijing’s territorial claims in the region. https://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/asean-plus/30368917