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But China is not a security threat to us, Roque adds (Eagle News) — While noting China was not a “security threat,” the Palace on Monday, May 21, expressed “serious concerns” over what it said would be the impact of the Asian giant’s recent deployment of bombers to Woody Island in the South China Sea on “constructive efforts to maintain peace and stability in the region.” “Even if we don’t feel that China is […]
MANILA, Philippines (AFP) — China is expanding artificial islands in disputed South China Sea areas despite saying it stopped two years ago, according to a security think tank that released satellite images it said showed the land reclamation. Beijing claims most of the sea and has been turning reefs in the Spratly and Paracel chains into islands, installing military aircraft and missile systems on them — an activity the Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative (AMTI) […]
China’s foreign ministry said that the United States had seriously damaged peace and stability in the South China Sea after a United States warship sailed near a disputed island claimed by China, Taiwan and Vietnam. The USS Stethem, a guided-missile destroyer, sailed on Sunday (June 2) within 12 nautical miles of Triton Island, part of the Paracel Islands in the South China Sea, a US Defense Department official said. The official added that the operation […]
Washington, United States (AFP)—China has deployed fighter jets to the same contested island in the South China Sea to which it also has sent surface-to-air missiles, US officials said Tuesday. Citing two unnamed US officials, Fox News said US intelligence services had spotted Chinese Shenyang J-11 and Xian JH-7 warplanes on Woody Island in the disputed Paracel Islands chain over the past few days. Navy Captain Darryn James, a spokesman for US Pacific Command, confirmed […]
(Reuters) — China’s foreign ministry in Beijing accused the United States on Monday (February 1) of seeking maritime hegemony in the name of freedom of navigation after a U.S. Navy destroyer sailed within 12 nautical miles of a disputed island in the South China Sea. China claims most of the South China Sea, through which more than $5 trillion of world trade is shipped every year. Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunei, the Philippines and Taiwan have […]
(PUERTO PRINCESA CITY) — President Benigno S. Aquino III said he is against developments being done by other claimant countries in the South China Sea (West Philippine Sea) and that the Philippines might bring the issue to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS). Vietnam, Malaysia, China and other countries are building or improving facilities in islands or atolls they claim, which President Aquino said […]
