June 2016
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Will U.S. Restrain ‘Provocative’ South China Sea Actions? Beijing Wants To Know
The Beijing-based Global Times would like to know if Washington is going to keep up its provocative actions in the South China Sea . The newspaper, which often expresses the views of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), posed the question at the end of an editorial on Wednesday, offering its take on the eighth China-US […]
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Asia’s New Battlefield: The South China Sea Disputes
Singapore – “The vast Pacific Ocean has enough space for two large countries like the United States and China,” claimed Chinese President Xi Jinping during his intimate retreat in Sunnylands with his American counterpart, Barack Obama, back in 2013. Optimistic about a new era of cooperation, Xi espoused a “new model of great power relations.” […]
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China urged to have civilized behavior in sea dispute settlements: workshop
In a civilized world, disputes should be resolved in a civilized manner in accordance with mutually agreed laws among relevant parties, experts said at an international workshop on sea security and development that concluded Friday in northern Vietnam. Co-hosted by the Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam and the Delegation of the European Union to Vietnam, the […]
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Why Beijing Will Increase Its South China Sea Activities In The Next Few Months
On Monday, more Sino-U.S. relations rhetoric hit the news cycle, but much of it is the same that we’ve heard before. At the U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue in Beijing, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry pressed China over its recent actions in the South China Sea, while U.S. Trade Secretary Jack Lew urged China […]
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China blasts ‘unilateral’ Philippine move ahead of ruling
BEIJING — China accused the Philippines Wednesday of ignoring requests for dialogue about their maritime dispute, as tensions rise before an international tribunal’s ruling on the territorial row. The Philippines has “unilaterally closed the door of settling the South China Sea issue with China through negotiation,” China’s foreign ministry said in a lengthy statement published […]
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The South China Sea Set to Boil: Is a U.S.-China Showdown in the Works?
The United States continues to reiterate the need for regional stability, while China fundamentally perceives the South China Sea as a matter of its territorial sovereignty. As important, Beijing once again emphasized that, in its view, it is the United States that is destabilizing the region, by encouraging China’s neighbors to pursue territorial claims against […]
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The foreign news outlets that totally back Beijing’s position in the South China Sea
In case there was any confusion about China’s territorial claims in South China Sea, columns and articles have appeared in some local publications in various parts of the world to clear things up. Many are based thousands of miles from the South China Sea. Strong opinions on the South China Sea.(Tehran Times) No less than […]
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Incoming DFA chief Yasay: No bilateral talks with China before tribunal decision
MANILA – The Philippines will not pursue bilateral talks with China until an international tribunal decides on a case brought by the Philippines in connection with claims in the South China Sea, incoming foreign minister Perfecto Yasay said on Friday. The Philippines has brought a case at an international tribunal in The Hague contesting China’s […]
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China Plans Manned Subsea ‘Space Station’ in South China Sea
(Bloomberg) — China is speeding up efforts to design and build a manned deep-sea platform to help it hunt for minerals in the South China Sea, one that may also serve a military purpose in the disputed waters. Such an oceanic “space station” would be located as much as 3,000 meters (9,800 feet) below the […]
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States will challenge China’s planned South China Sea air defense zone – US expert
MANILA, Philippines — The moment China makes good on its plan to declare an air defense identification zone in the South China Sea, different countries can be expected to put up a challenge by sending warplanes swarming through the vital sea lanes, an American security expert said. “If the Chinese declare an ADIZ, the minute […]