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US forcing China to accelerate South China Sea Deployments
China’s top newspaper, decrying Washington as a trouble-maker, said on Monday U.S. moves in the South China Sea like last week’s freedom of navigation operation will only cause China to strengthen its deployments in the ...
- January 23, 2018
PH, Vietnam navies play sports on South China Sea Island.
Philippine and Vietnamese navies have been playing soccer, volleyball and tug-of-war games together on South China Sea Island, the latest get-together by two countries concerned with Chinese assertiveness in the disputed ...
- June 27, 2017
US air force trains in vicinity of South China Sea
US Air Force B-52 bombers have carried out training in the vicinity of the South China Sea and the southern Japanese island of Okinawa, the Air Force said on Friday, in what a Chinese newspaper linked to China’s drills ...
- April 28, 2018
Pentagon mulls sending planes, near disputed water
The Pentagon is considering sending U.S. military aircraft and ships to assert freedom of navigation around growing Chinese-made artificial islands in the disputed South China Sea, a U.S. official said on Tuesday. U.S. ...
- May 14, 2015
Japan plans to send largest warship to South China Sea
Japan plans to dispatch its largest warship on a three-month tour through the South China Sea beginning in May, three sources said, in its biggest show of naval force in the region since World War Two. China claims almost ...
- March 15, 2017
China navy carries out more drills in disputed South China Sea
China’s navy has in recent days carried out more exercises in the disputed South China Sea, the Defence Ministry said on Sunday, calling them routine drills. China claims almost all of the energy-rich waters of the South ...
- December 14, 2015
First draft of South China Sea Code of Conduct ready
A first draft of a Code of Conduct for behavior in the disputed South China Sea has been completed, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Wednesday, adding tension in the waterway had eased notably. Since 2010, China ...
- March 9, 2017
Japan may give planes to Manila for South China Sea patrols
Japan wants to give planes to the Philippines that Manila could use for patrols in the South China Sea, sources said, a move that would deepen Tokyo’s security ties with the Southeast Asian nation most at odds with Beijing ...
- August 7, 2015
China promised not to build in disputed shoal-Yasay
Chinese President Xi Jinping promised President Duterte that Beijing will not build structures on a rocky outcrop in the South China Sea, Foreign Affairs Secretary Perfecto Yasay said yesterday. Yasay said the Chinese ...
- February 24, 2017
Xi tells Mattis: China won't give up 'even one inch' of territory
China is committed to peace but cannot give up “even one inch” of territory that the country’s ancestors left behind, Chinese President Xi Jinping told U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis on Wednesday during his first visit ...
- June 29, 2018