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TRANSCRIPT: Wilkerson on Heightened Tensions in the South China Sea
Wilkerson on Heightened Tensions in the South China SeaSHARMINI PERIES, TRNN: It’s the Real News Network. I’m Sharmini Peries coming to you from Baltimore. Two Chinese fighter jets intercepted a US military aircraft over the South China Sea on Tuesday. The incident happened in international air space. The US maritime reconnaissance aircraft carried out a routine patrol in the area.…
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China: Actually, more than 40 countries support our stance in the South China Sea dispute
China said on Friday more than 40 countries support its position on an international legal case brought by the Philippines over its claims in the South China Sea. China refuses to recognize the Philippine case and says all disputes should be resolved through bilateral talks. Beijing has stepped up its rhetoric ahead of an expected ruling by the Permanent Court…
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The U.S. Army’s Big Guns go to the South China Sea
Senior Army and Pentagon strategists and planners are considering ways to fire existing weapons platforms in new ways around the globe – including the possible placement of mobile artillery units in areas of the South China Sea to, if necessary, function as air-defense weapons to knock incoming rockets and cruise missiles out of the sky. Alongside the South China Sea,…
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China objects to presence of Indian ships in South China Sea
NEW DELHI: China has upped the ante on its claims in the South China Sea region ahead of President Pranab Mukherjee’s four-day trip to the country from May 24, objecting to the presence of Indian Navy ships in the region where it has significantly expanded its presence since 2009 through artificial islands and military presence. Indian Navy ships taking part…
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Playing Chicken in the South China Sea
By the Pentagon’s account, two Chinese fighter jets performed an “unsafe” maneuver this week by flying within 50 feet of an American surveillance plane over the South China Sea. That’s not much more than a hairbreadth, aeronautically speaking, and a collision could have been catastrophic — to the crews and to the already fragile diplomatic relations between China and its…
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US, China closer on South China Sea issues than they appear
When big countries reach agreement, small countries may pay the price, says Ambassador-at-large Bilahari Kausikan in a speech he delivered in Tokyo this week. The excerpt below includes notes prepared in anticipation of questions. President Xi Jinping has termed the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP’s) role as leading the “Great Rejuvenation” of the Chinese nation after a century of weakness and…
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Could A Lighthouse Have Prevented South China Sea’s Latest Flashpoint?
After U.S. bases in the Philippines closed in the early ’90s, a lighthouse on Scarborough Shoal was meant to help protect the country from regional aggression. But that project was never completed. RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST: Scarborough Shoal is little more than a bump in the South China Sea. China is eyeing it for an air base even though the shoal…
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South China Sea: Is China upping the stakes?
(CNN)Two Chinese J-11 fighter aircraft carried out an “unsafe” intercept of a United States EP-3E “Aires II” reconnaissance aircraft in international airspace over the South China Sea, according to the U.S. Department of Defense. During the incident, which took place Tuesday, the fighters reportedly came within 50 feet (15 meters) of the Navy plane. Flying two supersonic fighter jets within…
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America’s instructive humiliation in the South China Sea: Spengler
“Let us admit it fairly, as a business people should: We have had no end of a lesson: it will do us no end of good,” wrote Rudyard Kipling in 1902 after the Boers humiliated the British Army in the first round of the Boer War. America should express the same gratitude towards China, which has humiliated America in the…
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United States to remain world’s Number 1 power ‘for a fairly long time’: Beijing
The United States will remain the world’s leading power for a long time, Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Friday, but he stressed global affairs should not be dominated by one country. Wang made the remarks during an interview with the Qatar-based broadcaster Al Jazeera, ahead of the seventh ministerial conference of the China-Arab States Cooperation Forum in Doha last…
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Duterte, the Americans, the Chinese, and the communists
President Duterte has three main priorities: one, kill drug lords and those guilty of heinous crimes like rape and murder; two, extricate something practical and profitable from the Philippine territorial claim in the West Philippine Sea; and three, share power with the communist rebels to bring to an end the longest communist insurgency in the world. Relatedly, for the Muslim…
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China wants TT backing on South China Sea
AS PART of its ongoing international blitz to lobby countries to back it, China yesterday called on Trinidad and Tobago to “stand with righteousness” and support its claim to territories in the South China Sea. In a statement published in the print media yesterday, China’s Ambassador Huang Xingyuan argued the issue – which is likely to escalate with an international…