Tag Archives: China

Robert D. Kaplan: ‘The South China Sea is to China what the Greater Caribbean was to the United States’

[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/210844936″ params=”color=da161f” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /] Why do you consider the South China Sea one of the world’s more important pieces of geo-political real estate? The South China Sea is to China what the Greater Caribbean was to the United States in the 19th and early 20th centuries. The United States became a great […]

Freedom of navigation in East, South China seas stressed

MANILA — Maritime security experts attending a symposium hosted by the Institute for International Policy Studies (IIPS) agreed Monday that freedom of navigation and overflight in the East and South China seas should be assured. The symposium, titled “Towards Common Actions on Maritime Commons — Safeguarding Maritime Security in Asia through Regional Cooperation,” was cohosted […]

‘Great Wall of Sea’ hit

“China has effectively put up its own Great Wall of the Sea.” China’s statement on Tuesday that it would soon start building infrastructure on its artificial islands in the South China Sea drew condemnation from the Philippines, Japan and the United States on Wednesday. Manila said it was considering asking the United Nations arbitral tribunal […]

Indian Navy in disputed South China Sea as part of operational deployment

In what is being seen as a furtherance to India’s ‘Act East’ policy and more specifically, a strategically operational deployment in the crucial South China Sea, Indian Navy warships reached Malaysia on Wednesday. The fleet belonging to the Navy’s Eastern Fleet fleet includes INS Ranvir, a guided missile destroyer, INS Satpura, the indigenously built guided […]

China only exception to Asian way

China has refused to participate in an arbitration launched by the Philippines regarding their disputes in the South China Sea. Japan has refused to acknowledge that it has a dispute with China regarding Senkaku/Diaoyu. South Korea has rejected Japan’s offer to refer their dispute over Dokdo/ Takeshima to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on […]

The Line That America Shouldn’t Cross in the South China Sea

“[I]f the United States insists on publicly denying and routinely penetrating the 12-nm lines, China simply cannot bear the costs of inaction.” U.S. Defense Secretary Ashton Carter recently proposed more-assertive military options for the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea (SCS). The new policy would dispatch U.S. naval ships to within 12 nautical miles […]

U.S. ‘troubled’ by Chinese building plans in South China Sea

WASHINGTON — The United States is troubled by China’s plans to keep building on artificial islands in the South China Sea, the top U.S. diplomat for East Asia said Thursday. Assistant Secretary of State Danny Russel told journalists that the prospect of China militarizing those maritime outposts runs counter to the goal of reducing regional […]

It’s official: America has a China-containment policy

Actually, that was a title of a piece I wrote in July 2010, before island-building, before the Senkaku crises, before the rare earths brouhaha, even before Hillary Clinton declared that the US had a “national interest” in freedom of navigation in the South China Sea at the 2010 ASEAN foreign ministers’ conference in Hanoi and formally […]

PHL to continue exposing China in world community —Palace

The Philippine government will continue drawing global attention to the political and environmental impact of Chinese reclamation activities in disputed territories in the West Philippine Sea. During a press briefing on Wednesday, presidential spokesman Sec. Edwin Lacierda said this is the administration’s plan while the United Nations arbitration tribunal hears the Philippines’ case questioning Beijing’s […]

PH alarmed as China soon completes island building

MANILA, Philippines – The Philippines urged China on Wednesday, June 17, to “desist” from its reclamation activities in the disputed West Philippine Sea (South China Sea) after Beijing said it is set to finish its island building. “We reiterate our serious concern over China’s massive reclamation activities and planned construction of facilities in those features,” […]