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Satellite images reveal Beijing’s new weapon installed in South China Sea
China has installed a new platform in the Paracel Islands of the South China Sea, with satellite images revealing Beijing’s continuing quest for power in the disputed area. Recent satellite imagery shows a new structure that appears to be anchored on the north edge of the Bombay Reef, with solar panels and a radome (a dome protecting radar or other…
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Mattis Resignation and Afghan News Alarm U.S. Allies in Asia
Members of the United States military in Logar Province, Afghanistan in August. Mr. Trump plans to halve the number of American troops operating in the country. President Trump’s decision to withdraw roughly 7,000 troops from Afghanistan, along with the resignation of his defense secretary, Jim Mattis, stirred fears in the Asia-Pacific region on Friday that the United States was abandoning…
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China is the ultimate authoritarian seducer
The China model aims for unprecedented totalitarianism. China employs millions to monitor the internet and media to observe and punish anything the regime doesn’t like, writes Fred McMahon. As China and the United States escalate their trade talks (or trade war), China is carving a disturbing global role that goes well beyond trade malfeasance. China has emerged as an old…
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Experiments by China and Russia to heat up the atmosphere cause concern
Russian scientists emitted a large amount of high-frequency radio waves into the ionosphere. A Chinese satellite studied the data from orbit. Potential military applications of this tech raise alarms. A series of controversial experiments by Russia and China recently came to light, drawing concern from experts over their potential military applications. A newly published paper shows that in June 2018,…
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Justice Department announces charges against 2 Chinese hackers
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. officials say two Chinese citizens acting on behalf of their country’s main intelligence agency carried out an extensive hacking campaign to steal data from military service members, government agencies and private companies in the United States and nearly a dozen other nations. It was the latest in a series of Justice Department indictments targeting cyberespionage from…
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Canada joins U.S., U.K. in calling out China for state-sponsored hacking campaign
A police officer gestures at the photographer as security staff stand guard outside the Canadian embassy in Beijing, China on Dec. 20, 2018. Canada has joined major allies including the United States and Britain in identifying China as the country responsible for a state-sponsored hacking campaign to steal data from military service members, government agencies and private companies in the…
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DND seeks to review treaty between US, PH
Nearly seven decades after the signing of the Mutual Defense Treaty between the United States and the Philippine government, the defense department will seek to review the Aug. 30, 1951 accord to solicit Washington’s position with regards the dispute in the South China Sea. Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana said the planned review of the MDT will seek Washington’s specific stand…
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Thucydides Trap author Graham Allison says China and US must work together and not end up on path that leads to war
Harvard scholar Graham Allison says China’s rising influence sets it at odds with the US’ notion of itself as a superpower and both need to take a step back Graham Allison, who said Beijing and Washington could fall into what he called the Thucydides Trap – where a rising power threatens to eclipse a rival and conflict may result –…
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Philippines to keep military presence in Ayungin shoal, says Lorenzana
MANILA – The Philippines will continue to deploy troops to a Manila-claimed reef in the West Philippine Sea amid China’s threatening moves in the area. Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana assured the public Thursday that the Philippine government would not hesitate to protest any aggression from China in the disputed waters. “We will still patrol and we will keep on protesting…
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Pompeo, Philippine Counterpart Discus Efforts To Stabilize South China Sea – State Dept.
WASHINGTON (UrduPoint News / Sputnik – 21st December, 2018) US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Philippine Secretary of Foreign Affairs Teodoro Locsin, Jr. in a meeting in Washington, DC spoke about what have been done to address the territorial dispute in the South China Sea, the Department of State said in a press release. “The two Secretaries discussed ongoing…
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Could the Philippines fall victim to a US-China proxy conflict?
There is an intensifying and increasingly shrill debate as to whether the US and China are on the brink of a new kind of cold war. Those who say they’re not cite one major difference between their rivalry and that of the US and Soviet Union in the cold war: the US-China struggle has not manifested itself in proxy conflicts.…
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South China Sea and Taiwan among flashpoints for armed conflict in 2019, survey warns US policymakers
The South China Sea and Taiwan have made Council of Foreign Relations’ Centre for Preventative Action list of hotspots for potential armed conflict in 2019. While the issue of the South China Sea has been on the list before, it marks the first time that Taiwan has been included. North Korea and Iran remain on the list, as well as…