South China Sea

Washington 03/04/22, 17:21

On Tuesday, March 2, the Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative (AMTI) published a report that shows the overlapping paths of Chinese survey vessels across the South China Sea for the past two years. AMTI is a Center for Strategic and International Studies Project, a Washington, D.C.–based think tank. The path also shows that ...

China 03/03/22, 11:12

The Chinese regime has continued to encroach on the airspace around Taiwan. At the same time, the Chinese military began exercises in the South China Sea and the Bohai Sea on Feb. 27. According to China's Maritime Safety Administration, the Hainan Maritime Safety Administration issued a navigation warning on the 25th. ...

Australia & Oceania 02/08/22, 18:20

Australia's Defense Minister, Peter Dutton, said the U.S. and its allies must exert greater pressure on China after they "acquiesced and allowed" Beijing to expand its footprint in the South China Sea over the last decade. According to Sydney Morning Herald, Mr. Dutton said, "I think we've lost a considerable period ...

China 01/25/22, 03:15

A U.S. military fighter jet crashed on the deck of the USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier in the South China Sea as its pilot had a mishap while landing on Monday, Jan. 24. In a statement, U.S. Navy's Pacific Fleet said that an F-35C Lightning II, assigned to Carrier Air Wing 2, had ...

China 11/27/21, 15:39

The Philippines, on Thursday, Nov. 25, responded to the Chinese government that it would not remove its navy ship from the disputed South China Sea shoal. The BRP Sierra Madre naval vessel has been grounded at the Second Thomas Shoal since 1999, said Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana, the Associated Press reported. He said the ...

China 11/19/21, 01:03

Two Philippine boats were attacked with violent blasts of water by Chinese coast guard ships on Tuesday, Nov. 16, in the disputed Spratly Islands over the South China Sea shoal.  The ships were delivering food supplies to the Filipino military on the Second Thomas Shoal, also known as Ayungin Shoal, the ...

Australia & Oceania 09/21/21, 02:42

A submarine deal between the United States, Britain, and Australia offended a French official so deeply he called off a high-level military meeting. Armed Forces Minister Florence Parly canceled his bilateral meeting with British Defence Secretary Ben Wallace. The pair was supposed to discuss the two-day Franco-British Council with defence chiefs ...

China 08/24/21, 16:04

Vice President Kamala Harris accused Beijing of using coercion and intimidation to support illegal claims in the South China Sea on Tuesday, Aug. 24. Harris criticized the Chinese regime during a trip to Southeast Asia, which she described as crucial to U.S. security. Harris' seven-day journey to Singapore and Vietnam, only ...

World 07/20/21, 17:46

In a show of support for its allies, the UK Defense Secretary announced plans to send warships to the South China Sea region permanently. They will have to sail in international waters that the Chinese communist regime claims as its own. According to Daily Mail, Ben Wallace, British Defense Secretary, confirmed ...

China 07/16/21, 17:13

The United States is discharging more than 20 F-22 fighter jets from Hawaii and Alaska to the Western Pacific amid growing tensions with China, said Pacific Air Forces in Hawaii on Monday, July 12.  Nearly 25 F-22 Raptors will relocate to Guam and Tinian islands in the Northern Mariana Islands of ...

China 07/12/21, 16:38

Joe Biden's administration will reject Beijing's territorial claims in the South China Sea, and continue to back Philippine defense. Secretary of State Antony Blinken made the declaration on July 11, ahead of the fifth anniversary of a ruling by an independent arbitration tribunal. That ruling supports the Philippines's claim against Chinese ...

China 06/05/21, 18:00

The online encyclopedia Wikipedia has once again caused a stir for its left-leaning bias. However, this time, it went too far, as it attributed to the Chinese regime a sea that does not belong to it. The issue surfaced in a discussion on the Wikipedia Reddit community when a user shared ...

China 01/14/21, 10:56

In a rare action the Trump administration declassified documents containing the strategy to defeat the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in its claims to dominate the important western Pacific region, with the goal of achieving "a free and open Indo-Pacific," they said from Washington. The basic objectives of the strategy are to ...

China 08/29/20, 15:24

After the United States disapproved of the provocations of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, which raised tensions over the South China Sea after it fired ballistic missiles, Beijing responded to the United States by claiming that it was a "troublemaker." As Express UK indicated, during military exercises carried out in the ...

Politics 08/29/20, 14:59

According to the U.S. Department of Defense, Secretary Mark Esper received Japanese Defense Minister Taro Kono today to reaffirm the strength of the U.S.-Japanese alliance and to discuss ways to deepen and expand bilateral defense cooperation. Esper and Kono exchanged views and reaffirmed their shared position of a free and open ...

U.S. 08/24/20, 17:14

The military pressure exerted by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) on the South China Sea and the countries in the middle of the territorial dispute is intensifying. The Taiwanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs responded to these threats by warning the CCP not to underestimate its defense capabilities. Through a video, Taiwan ...

China 08/15/20, 12:29

This week, several sources reported that Chinese pilots and officers were ordered to act moderately toward U.S. planes and warships in and over the waters of the South China Sea, raising concerns about the position of both countries regarding the tensions in that area. As Newsweek reported, in July two U.S. ...

China 08/07/20, 13:59

In a recent telephone conversation between U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper and CCP Defense Minister Wei Fenghe, the Chinese Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) activity in the South China Sea near Taiwan was described by Esper as "destabilizing," according to Reuters. "Secretary Esper also communicated the importance that the PRC (People’s Republic ...

Australia & Oceania 07/25/20, 15:42

On Thursday, July 23, Australia declared before the United Nations that there is "no legal basis" for the territorial and maritime claims made by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in the South China Sea, thus aligning itself with the position of the United States. "Australia rejects China’s [the CCP's] claim to ...

U.S. 07/22/20, 12:57

U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper reaffirmed the purposes of the U.S. naval force in the South China Sea, saying it was "not going to be stopped by anyone" in relation to the pressure from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) that threatens stability in the region. Esper asserted that the CCP continued ...