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China can deploy warplanes on artificial islands anytime
China appears to have largely completed major construction of military infrastructure on artificial islands it has built in the South China Sea and can now deploy combat planes and other military hardware there at any time, ...
- March 29, 2017
China welcomes Rody's decision to drop visit to Spratlys
China welcomes President Duterte’s backpedalling on his plan to visit the disputed Spratlys on Independence Day and plant a Philippine flag on an islet occupied by Filipinos. “We are glad that the Philippines choose to ...
- April 16, 2017
US: China finishing 'missile' structures on reefs
China, in an early test of U.S. President Donald Trump, has nearly finished building almost two dozen structures on artificial islands in the South China Sea that appear designed to house long-range surface-to-air missiles, ...
- February 23, 2017
China warns Duterte on SCS: we’ll go to war
Contrary to what critics believe, President Duterte raised with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping the ruling of a UN-backed arbitral court, which trashed Beijing’s claims over the South China Sea. Xi’s response, Duterte ...
- May 20, 2017
'Asean under pressure on SCS issue'
The United States yesterday acknowledged that the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) was under “tremendous” pressure on the South China Sea issue. Heather Nauert, spokesperson for the US Department of State, ...
- August 11, 2017
'China to build on Phl's Panatag'
The Philippines expects China to try to build on a reef off its coast, the country’s defense secretary said yesterday, a move he said would be “unacceptable” in the flashpoint waterway. In an interview with AFP, Delfin ...
- February 8, 2017
China to build permanent structure on Panatag
China plans to build the first permanent structure on a South China Sea shoal at the heart of a territorial dispute with the Philippines, in a move likely to renew concerns over Beijing’s robust assertions of its claims ...
- March 18, 2017
US warship sails near Mischief Reef
A US Navy destroyer carried out a "freedom of navigation" operation on Friday, coming within 12 nautical miles of an artificial island built by China in the South China Sea, US officials told Reuters. The operation was the ...
- August 11, 2017
Beijing denies island-building in South China Sea
There was "no such thing" as man-made islands in the disputed South China Sea, China's Defense Ministry said on Thursday, and reiterated that any building work was mainly for civilian purposes. The building has included ...
- April 1, 2017
China installs rocket launchers on disputed reef
China has installed rocket launchers on a disputed reef in the South China Sea to ward off Vietnamese military combat divers, according to a state-run newspaper, offering new details on China’s ongoing military build-up. ...
- May 18, 2017