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by Laurent Barthelemy ABOARD the USS John C. Stennis, Undefined (AFP) — US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter visited a warship close to flashpoint waters of the South China Sea on Friday, as Beijing reacted defiantly to an American military build-up in the area. Carter’s trip to the USS John C. Stennis was the latest effort by the United States to show its commitment to maintaining security in the hotly contested waters, where China has rattled nerves […]
SAN FERNANDO CITY, April 11 – The Philippine government expects an international tribunal hearing an arbitration case it filed to invalidate China’s claims in the South China Sea to issue a decision in the coming weeks. Department of Foreign Affairs Spokesperson Charles Jose said the United Nations Permanent Court of Arbitration in the Hague will decide whether the Philippines will keep or lose 80 percent of its exclusive economic zone and 100 percent of it […]
by Laurent Barthelemy WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — US Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter headed Saturday to India and the Philippines for talks on increasing regional defense cooperation, after calling off a planned trip to China amid tensions over Beijing’s expansionist ambitions in the South China Sea. Carter will fly out of Washington and travel to India and the Philippines for his Asian tour, followed by Middle East stops in the United Arab Emirates and Saudi […]
(Reuters) — China on Wednesday (April 6) hit back at accusations from a Philippine senator, who said that Chinese hackers were likely to have pulled off one of the world’s biggest cyber heists at the Bangladesh central bank. Unidentified hackers infiltrated the computers at Bangladesh Bank in early February and tried to transfer a total of $951 million from its account at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. All but one of the 35 […]
HANOI, Vietnam (AFP) — Vietnam’s coast guard has seized a Chinese oil tanker which it claims intruded into Vietnamese waters, state media said Monday, the latest episode in a festering territorial dispute in the South China Sea. The Qiong Yangpu was carrying 100,000 litres of oil, the official Vietnam News Agency said, adding that it was captured Thursday and impounded in the northern port of Hai Phong. The three-man crew was handed over to police, […]
By Sourabh Gupta Institute for China–America Studies (Courtesy East Asia Forum) — Western and Asian governments and commentators have pilloried the Chinese government for its inscrutability on the so-called ‘nine-dash line’ in the South China Sea. Because the nine-dash line allegedly lacks a basis in international law as reflected in the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), they have hectored China to clarify the line’s meaning and to derive all maritime […]
MANILA, Philippines (AFP) — US and Philippine troops began major exercises on Monday as China’s state media warned “outsiders” against interfering in tense South China Sea territorial disputes. The official Xinhua news agency gave the warning as Manila and Washington launched the 11-day Balikatan (Shoulder-to-Shoulder) exercises with a low-key opening ceremony in Manila. US Defence Secretary Ash Carter is to fly to the Philippines next week to observe live-firing of artillery and visit US Navy […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) — Beijing’s defence ministry on Thursday warned the US navy to “be careful” in the South China Sea and slammed a newly signed agreement between Washington and the Philippines. Earlier this month, Manila agreed to give US forces access to five military bases, including some close to the disputed South China Sea, where tensions have risen over Beijing’s assertion of its territorial claims. China claims virtually all the South China Sea despite […]
by Andrew BEATTY WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — US President Barack Obama opened a meeting with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping with a promise of “candid” discussion over Beijing’s suspected military buildup in the South China Sea. “We will have candid exchanges about areas where we have differences, issues like human rights, cyber and maritime issues,” Obama said as he sat across the conference table from his Chinese counterpart. US officials have expressed concern that […]
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AFP) — The Taiwanese coastguard said Monday it had arrested 41 Chinese fisherman in possession of 15 tonnes of illicit coral reef and endangered turtles near a disputed atoll in the South China Sea. Taiwanese authorities detained the fishermen on March 22 after their 300-tonne vessel was discovered operating illegally off the shore of Tongsha island, the coastguard said, in the island’s largest mission targeting rampant poaching in the contested waters. Officials later […]
TAIPING, Taiwan (AFP) — Taiwan on Wednesday gave its first ever international press tour of a disputed island in the South China Sea to boost its claim, less than two months after a visit by its leader sparked protests from rival claimants. Taiping is the largest island in the Spratlys chain and is administered by Taiwan, which sees it as part of its territory. But the Spratlys are also claimed in part or whole by […]
(Reuters) — China’s Foreign Ministry said on Monday (March 21) that a Chinese coastguard vessel did not enter Indonesian waters after Indonesia protested against what it called an infringement of its waters by a Chinese vessel near a disputed area of the South China Sea over the weekend. The incident involving an Indonesian patrol boat, and a Chinese coastguard vessel and fishing boat in what Indonesia said was its waters, has angered Indonesia. Indonesia says […]
