Tag: disputed area

China deploys jet fighters to South China Sea — report

  (Eagle News) — Chinese jet fighters have been sent to the South China Sea, the People’s Liberation Army Air Force said on Wednesday. Su-35 Russia-made advanced fighters were dispatched to the sea for joint combat cruise missions, the official Sina Weibo account of the PLA Air Force said, according to a report published in the Global Times. Global Times is an English-language publication that is under the auspices of the Chinese Communist Party newspaper People’s […]

China says stay out of South China Sea issue after UK comments

BEIJING, China (AFP) — China said it was on high alert to statements from countries “playing up” tension in the South China Sea after Britain said it planned to send a warship to the disputed waterway next year to conduct freedom of navigation exercises. Britain would increase its presence in the waters after it sent four British fighter planes for joint exercises with Japan in the region last year, Defense Minister Michael Fallon said on […]