The Philippines has installed buoys and opened some command posts to mark out and assert its sovereignty in waters and islets it claims in the contested South China Sea, the country’s coast guard chief said Friday. The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) set up five navigational buoys, each one 30-feet long and bearing the national flag,
China is the source of destabilization in the South China Sea and has been for the last couple decades, but Beijing’s assertiveness has less to do with its rivalry with the United States than is commonly assumed, a new report says. In the report “Dynamics of Assertiveness in the South China Sea” published by the
China and countries from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) will conduct face-to-face consultations on a Code of Conduct (COC) in the disputed South China Sea later this month in Cambodia, the Chinese Foreign Ministry has said. Spokesperson Zhao Lijian told reporters in Beijing that the consultations will be done in person “in the
Recent satellite imagery shows that China is continuing to actively develop its facilities on the disputed Subi Reef in the South China Sea, two months after a top U.S. commander said Beijing had “fully militarized” it. Simularity Inc., a U.S. geospatial intelligence company, said that an analysis of satellite imagery from May 5 has revealed
China has once again announced a unilateral fishing moratorium in the South China Sea, to vigorous protests by Vietnam but the Philippines has so far not reacted. The three-and-half-month ban began on Sunday and covers the waters north of 12 degrees north latitude in the South China Sea which Vietnam and the Philippines also call
China has reacted strongly against Taiwan’s alleged plans to extend a runway on the contested Taiping Island in the South China Sea, saying it was “playing with fire.” Taiwanese media reported last week that the island’s military is planning to lengthen the existing 1,150-meter-long airstrip by 350 meters so that it will be able to
The Philippines has suspended oil and gas exploration activities in the disputed South China Sea, a presidential spokesman said, under what an analyst described as “coercion” from China. Martin Andanar, spokesman for President Rodrigo Duterte, told reporters on Tuesday in Manila that the Security, Justice and Peace Coordinating Cluster (SJPCC), or the government’s security advisors,
s territorial growth in the South China Sea.” [To solve] intricate problems like this, its really useful to have a multilateral technique and cumulative security that permits free and open Indo-Pacific (waters),” Gen. Charles Flynn, the U.S. Army leader in the Pacific, informed press reporters in Kuala Lumpur.” I believe training workouts and the ability
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh made an unmatched visit to the Memorial for the Johnson South Reef Battle in the south-central province of Khanh Hoa province at the weekend. He paid homage to the 64 Vietnamese soldiers who were killed in the incident on March 14, 1988. Chinh was the very first top Vietnamese leader
A report released Dec. 8, 2021, by U.S. cybersecurity firm Recorded Future on supposed Chinese hacking in Southeast Asia. Unrivaled scale and scope Insikt scientists said Chinese state-sponsored groups have actually typically been highly active in targeting Chinas competing plaintiffs in the South China Sea, “with the functional pace often mirroring increased geopolitical stress.” Last
