The U.S. military reportedly is set to conduct its first missile test around the Japanese island of Okinawa later this year amid increasing Chinese aggression in the South China Sea. It is not clear when the test will occur, but Stars and Stripes, citing Japan’s Sankei newspaper, said it will feature the Army’s High-Mobility Artillery […]

Hong Kong’s “one country, two systems” arrangement with the mainland was supposed to serve as a model for the eventual unification of Taiwan with the motherland. Obviously, however, the template isn’t working very well or Chinese President Xi Jinping would not have ushered in the new year with a speech in which he threatened to […]

General Li Zuocheng, the PLA’s chief of the Joint Staff Department, made the remarks during a meeting with Admiral John Richardson, the US chief of naval operations, in Beijing. Richardson is in China on a three-day visit that also includes a stop in the eastern city of Nanjing, headquarters of the People’s Liberation Army Eastern […]

The Liberty Magazine interviewed a former Japanese Self-Defense Force official about the South China Sea crisis and the “Free and Open Indo-Pacific” Kunio Orita: Having graduated from the National Defense Academy of Japan in 1974, Orita served as Commander of the 6th Air Wing, Commander of the Air Support Command, and served in the Japanese […]

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — In a recent interview, former Japanese Air Self-Defense Force (JASDF) Air Support Commander, Orita Kunio (織田邦男), offers a warning and a bleak outlook for the Indo-Pacific region over the coming decades. Orita says that China’s national strategy is one of continued expansion, with an aim of establishing absolute regional hegemony, beginning […]

Packages from £10 per monthPackages from £10 per month An offshore tanker collided with a pipelay vessel off the island of Bintan in the South China Sea, sinking the £77 million ship. The crash with the Antea tanker punctured a hole in the side of the Star Centurion pipelay vessel causing it to tip onto […]

The 27th Annual Meeting of the Asia-Pacific Parliamentary Forum has put the South China Sea dispute, peace in the Korean peninsula and human rights problems in Myanmar on top of its agenda for discussions. Chheang Vun, spokesman and chairman of the Foreign Affairs Commission at the National Assembly, said yesterday at a press conference that […]

As China and the United States continue to wrestle over trade disputes and geopolitics, Vietnam is performing a balancing act in the stormy South China Sea as it seeks to maintain its strong ties with Washington while not upsetting Beijing, experts said. Earlier this week, Hanoi used the latest row over a US freedom of […]

BEIJING (AP) — A look at recent developments in the South China Sea, where China is pitted against smaller neighbors in multiple disputes over islands, coral reefs and lagoons in waters crucial for global commerce and rich in fish and potential oil and gas reserves: The U.S. and Australian militaries are joining for an annual […]

The main obstacle to multilateral cooperation on environmental management in the South China Sea and the Spratlys has always been mutual suspicion Nationalism is the fundamental driver of national policy in this arena and the primary obstacle to cooperation of any kind James Borton and Jackson Ewing reprise the romantic proposal for a cooperative environmental […]