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(REUTERS) The presumptive winner of the Philippine election on Monday said that if he became president he would settle rows over the South China Sea with multilateral talks that would include allies the United States, Japan and Australia as well as claimant nations. Rodrigo Duterte, the tough-talking mayor of Davao City, said China should respect the 200 nautical mile Exclusive Economic Zone granted to coastal states under international law and should team up with […]
BEIJING , China (AFP) — One of China’s top folk singers is rocking her away across disputed territory in the South China Sea, serenading hundreds of troops and construction workers stationed there, Chinese media reported Thursday. Song Zuying, who has performed with the likes of Canadian superstar Celine Dion, is part of an all-singing, all-dancing People’s Liberation Army (PLA) entertainment tour of the Spratly Islands, reports said. Footage of the troupe’s performance broadcast on Chinese […]
(Reuters) The fishing fleet based in this tiny port town on Hainan island is getting everything from military training and subsidies to even fuel and ice as China creates an increasingly sophisticated fishing militia to sail into the disputed South China Sea. The training and support includes exercises at sea and requests to fishermen to gather information on foreign vessels, provincial government officials, regional diplomats and fishing company executives said in recent interviews. “The […]
(Reuters) China risks “terrible” damage to its reputation if it ignores an impending international court ruling on the South China Sea, the United States said on Thursday, while urging Southeast Asian countries to rally behind the court decision. The Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague is expected to rule in coming weeks on a case the Philippines has brought against China’s claim to virtually all of the South China Sea, a strategic route for […]
SUBIC Bay, Philippines (AFP) — A Japanese warship sailed into a Philippine port near disputed South China Sea waters on Tuesday in another sign of deepening security ties between the World War II foes to counter Beijing. Tensions in the South China Sea — through which one-third of the world’s oil passes — have mounted in recent years since China transformed contested reefs into artificial islands capable of supporting military facilities. The Japanese destroyer Ise […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) — China said on Thursday it was “normal” to carry out ballistic missile launches, after a US media report accused Beijing of having test-fired an intercontinental weapon last week. US media site Washington Free Beacon, citing unidentified Pentagon officials, reported that China had carried out a test of its DF-41 long-range missile on April 12. The report linked the tests to tensions between Washington and Beijing over the South China Sea, noting […]
(Reuters) China is getting closer to building maritime nuclear power platforms that could one day to used to support Chinese projects in the disputed South China Sea, a widely-read state-run newspaper said on Friday. China has rattled nerves with its military and construction activities on the islands it occupies in the South China Sea, including building runways, though Beijing says most of what it is building is for civilian purposes, like lighthouses. The Global Times, […]
QUEZON City, Philippines – The United States of America firmly asked China to repeat its promise to not send military forces in the West Philippine Sea, after China sent a military aircraft in the disputed territory to evacuate its workers. According to US State Department Secretary John Kerry, it is questionable that Beijing used a military aircraft to evacuate said personnel, which points out that the activities of China in said region are of military […]
The United States military is betting on a new technology to help retain its edge as china build up its presence in the South China Sea, one reclaimed island at a time. During the past six months, the pentagon has started to talk publicly about a once-secret program to develop unmanned undersea vehicles, the term given to the submarine drones that are becoming part of its plan to deter China from trying to dominate the […]
Indonesia has called for joint maritime patrols with the Philippines and Malaysia, after a spate of kidnappings in waters near the southern Philippines by suspected militants. Around 14 Indonesians and four Malaysians have been abducted in recent weeks by groups with suspected links to Abu Sayyaf bandits. Indonesian military spokesman Tatang Sulaiman they are trying to set up cooperation on coordinated patrols between Malaysia and the Philippines, adding Indonesia had already sent two warships to […]
Britain said on Monday a ruling expected in the next few months in an international arbitration case the Philippines has brought against China’s South China Sea claims must be binding. Hugo Swire, British minister of state responsible for East Asia, also said Britain saw the ruling from the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague as an opportunity for China and the Philippines to renewed dialogue over their territorial disputes. China claims virtually all of […]
(Reuters) A Chinese military aircraft has for the first time publicly landed at a new airport on an island China has built in the disputed South China Sea, state media said on Monday, raising the prospect that China could base fighter jets there. The United States has criticized China’s construction of artificial islands in the South China Sea and worries that it plans to use them for military purposes, even though China says it has […]
