WASHINGTON: By releasing video of Beijing’s island reclamation work and considering more assertive maritime actions, the United States is signaling a tougher stance over the South China Sea and trying to spur Asian partners to more action. The release last week of the surveillance plane footage — showing dredgers and other ships busily turning remote […]
SINGAPORE—China’s island-building program in the South China Sea is expected to come under attack from defense ministers and military commanders at a high-level security summit in Singapore this weekend, amid concerns that Beijing is jeopardizing regional stability. Read more: http://www.wsj.com/articles/south-china-sea-tensions-simmer-ahead-of-security-summit-1432870446
China has moved weaponry onto artificial islands that it is building in contested areas of the South China Sea, adding to the risks of a confrontation with the United States and its regional security partners including Australia. Australian officials are concerned that China could also introduce long-range radars, anti-aircraft guns and regular surveillance flights that […]
BEIJING: Defending its action in directing a US surveillance plane out of a disputed area in the South China Sea, China today invoked the UN’s maritime law while asserting that freedom of navigation does not allow foreign military vessels to violate sovereignty of coastal states. “Recently some people are hyping up freedom of navigation in […]
U.S. surveillance imagery shows China has positioned weaponry on one of the artificial islands it is developing in the South China Sea, American officials said, supporting their suspicions that Beijing has been building up reefs for military purposes. Read more: http://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-surveillance-on-island-reveals-chinese-arms-1432864632
MANILA – China gave the Philippines a ”gentle reminder” last Tuesday that Beijing will not bully small countries but warned these nations not to make trouble willfully and endlessly. “Here is a gentle reminder to the Philippines: China will not bully small countries, meanwhile, small countries shall not make trouble willfully and endlessly. We hope […]
U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter on Wednesday called for an immediate end to island-building by China and other countries near the South China Sea, urging the participants to stop militarizing the dispute and find a peaceful solution. Carter said China’s island-building efforts were “out of step” with the regional consensus and that U.S. military aircraft […]
PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii — Defense Secretary Ash Carter strongly defended America’s right to fly over artificial islands that Beijing is building in the South China Sea but gave few hints before a visit to Asia this week about what the United States was willing to do to halt the construction effort. Carter responded to Chinese […]
The Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) at The Hague has announced that in July it will be holding the first hearing on the 2013 arbitration case the Philippines filed against China questioning the legal validity of China’s ‘9-dash line’ claim over the South China Sea. Since China has refused to participate in any way in […]
PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii—China has isolated itself by pursuing development of a chain of artificial islands in the South China Sea, Defense Secretary Ash Carter said, in Washington’s most forceful rebuke yet of Beijing’s attempts to assert its territorial rights in international waters. “There should be no mistake: the United States will fly, sail and operate […]