SYDNEY – Japan will join a major US-Australian military exercise for the first time in a sign of growing security links between the three countries as tensions fester over China’s island building in the South China Sea. While only 40 Japanese officers and soldiers will take part in drills involving 30,000 US and Australian troops […]
Singapore: South-east Asian nations are prioritising spending on their navies and coastguards amid rising tensions in the South China Sea, but as their capabilities grow, so does the risk that any confrontation in the contested waterway will be harder to contain. Annual defence spending in south-east Asia is projected to reach $US52 billion ($66 billion) […]
China set out its ambitions for a bigger naval presence far from its coasts, amid wariness among its neighbors over whether the country’s fleet will be used to back up its territorial claims. The People’s Liberation Army will add “open seas protection” to “offshore waters defense” on a list of core naval missions, according to […]
China has announced a change in military strategy, which will see it boost its naval capacities farther beyond its shores. This comes amid tensions in the South China Sea, where there are competing territorial claims. A policy white paper unveiled by China’s Cabinet, the State Council, on Tuesday, said that in future, the People’s Liberation […]
Beijing (CNN)A week after a CNN team aboard a U.S. Navy P8-A Poseidon heard the Chinese military issue warnings eight times to a U.S. surveillance plane flying over disputed waters in the South China Sea, a senior official with the People’s Liberation Army has called Chinese response “professional” and suggested Washington is playing up the […]
NEW DELHI/BEIJING: After it stunned the world last year with its own disclosure that it had sent submarines into the Indian Ocean, China has thrown the Asia-Pacific another curve ball with the revelation that it is looking to set up a naval base in the strategically located Djibouti on the Horn of Africa. This time […]
The United States has finally begun taking action to intervene in the simmering South China Sea disputes amid China’s fast reclamation of the region. Because of the potential US-China rivalry in the region, the South China Sea has become a flashpoint most likely to trigger a third world war. The South China Sea territorial disputes […]
A structure built by China in one of the islands in the Spratlys: China’s island building has alarmed its neighbours. Photo: Reuters Rising tensions in the South China Sea are not simply driven by disputes over reefs, hydrocarbon resources and fisheries. China is seeking to exercise greater control over the waters and airspace in ways […]
MOSCOW—China tried to electronically jam drone flights of the United States military over the disputed South China Sea in order to prevent surveillance on man-made islands Beijing is constructing as a part of its land reclamation initiative, U.S. officials said. US officials announced the attempt as US Vice President Joe Biden criticized China for unilaterally […]
During oral testimony to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on May 13, United States Assistant Secretary of Defence David Shear mentioned that as part of a set of military measures to respond to China’s provocative acts in the South China Sea, United States Air Force B-1 bombers would be deployed to Darwin. This caught officials […]