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Thanks but no thanks! – Hong Kong’s autonomy was meant to entice Taiwan… now it’s a warning
Hong Kong’s “one country, two systems” arrangement with the mainland was supposed to serve as a model for the eventual unification of Taiwan with the motherland. Obviously, however, the template isn’t working very well or Chinese President Xi Jinping would not have ushered in the new year with a speech in which he threatened to […]
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China won’t tolerate interference in Taiwan, military chief warns US
General Li Zuocheng, the PLA’s chief of the Joint Staff Department, made the remarks during a meeting with Admiral John Richardson, the US chief of naval operations, in Beijing. Richardson is in China on a three-day visit that also includes a stop in the eastern city of Nanjing, headquarters of the People’s Liberation Army Eastern […]
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Japan Is Going to Lose the U.S. Nuclear Umbrella
The Liberty Magazine interviewed a former Japanese Self-Defense Force official about the South China Sea crisis and the “Free and Open Indo-Pacific” Kunio Orita: Having graduated from the National Defense Academy of Japan in 1974, Orita served as Commander of the 6th Air Wing, Commander of the Air Support Command, and served in the Japanese […]
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China plans to take Taiwan by 2025, Okinawa by 2045: Fmr Japan Air Force Commander
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — In a recent interview, former Japanese Air Self-Defense Force (JASDF) Air Support Commander, Orita Kunio (織田邦男), offers a warning and a bleak outlook for the Indo-Pacific region over the coming decades. Orita says that China’s national strategy is one of continued expansion, with an aim of establishing absolute regional hegemony, beginning […]
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Offshore collision sinks pipelay vessel in South China Sea
Packages from £10 per monthPackages from £10 per month An offshore tanker collided with a pipelay vessel off the island of Bintan in the South China Sea, sinking the £77 million ship. The crash with the Antea tanker punctured a hole in the side of the Star Centurion pipelay vessel causing it to tip onto […]
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South China Sea and Korea issues top APPF
The 27th Annual Meeting of the Asia-Pacific Parliamentary Forum has put the South China Sea dispute, peace in the Korean peninsula and human rights problems in Myanmar on top of its agenda for discussions. Chheang Vun, spokesman and chairman of the Foreign Affairs Commission at the National Assembly, said yesterday at a press conference that […]
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Vietnam risks Beijing’s ire as it uses US freedom of navigation exercise to stake its claim in South China Sea
As China and the United States continue to wrestle over trade disputes and geopolitics, Vietnam is performing a balancing act in the stormy South China Sea as it seeks to maintain its strong ties with Washington while not upsetting Beijing, experts said. Earlier this week, Hanoi used the latest row over a US freedom of […]
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Recent developments surrounding the South China Sea
BEIJING (AP) — A look at recent developments in the South China Sea, where China is pitted against smaller neighbors in multiple disputes over islands, coral reefs and lagoons in waters crucial for global commerce and rich in fish and potential oil and gas reserves: The U.S. and Australian militaries are joining for an annual […]
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Why South China Sea island claimants won’t be moved by plight of coral reefs any time soon
The main obstacle to multilateral cooperation on environmental management in the South China Sea and the Spratlys has always been mutual suspicion Nationalism is the fundamental driver of national policy in this arena and the primary obstacle to cooperation of any kind James Borton and Jackson Ewing reprise the romantic proposal for a cooperative environmental […]
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Chinese fishing vessels manned by military’
MANILA, Philippines — Many of the Chinese fishing vessels around the Kalayaan Island Group (KIG) in the Spratlys archipelago are manned by militia and soldiers disguised as fishermen, a defense department insider said yesterday. “We know for a fact that PLAN has been sending and funding their maritime militia aboard dozens upon dozens of civilian […]
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Xi warns PLA be ready for ‘hardship, crisis and battle’
During his first official address of the new year to the nation’s military forces, Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday ordered the People’s Liberation Army (PLA), the country’s armed forces, to prepare for battle. “All military units must correctly understand major national security and development trends, and strengthen their sense of unexpected hardship, crisis and […]
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Base instinct: how Chinese visit to Cambodia reignited rumour of navy port plan
Fresh from celebrating four decades since the downfall of the former Khmer Rouge rulers, Cambodia welcomed several Chinese warships. Just days after last week’s anniversary, the vessels docked in the resort city of Sihanoukville, reviving concerns about the implications of close military ties between the two countries and the possibility China is planning a naval […]