China’s Foreign Ministry issued a warning to Russia’s state oil company Rosneft against drilling near disputed South China Sea islands claimed by Beijing. Russia insists the project in question has been conducted entirely within Vietnam’s territorial waters.
Contents: China says that its military exercises are intended to threaten Taiwan; Taiwan, in cooperation with the U.S., strengthens defenses against China
Clothing retailer Gap apologized to China on Tuesday for selling a T-shirt that displayed a map of China but did not include Taiwan, southern Tibet, or disputed islands in the South China Sea claimed by the Chinese.
China has significantly stepped up its military exercises around Taiwan at the same time it has tried to isolate it diplomatically, according to Taiwan’s minister of foreign affairs.
China deploys cruise and surface-to-air missiles in South China Sea; China’s military attacks US pilots in Djibouti with high-grade blinding lasers
China recently installed anti-ship cruise missiles in the South China Sea, sparking concern and a warning of “consequences” from the United States.
James Delingpole and British MP Daniel Kawczynski discuss potential successors to British Prime Minister Theresa May. Among their favorites are MPs Jacob Rees Mogg and Priti Patel. Also, James and Kawczynski weigh in on Brexit, Poland, and the changes in Saudi Arabia.
Professor Clive Hamilton of Australia’s Charles Sturt University spoke to the U.S. Congressional-Executive Commission on China on Thursday, warning that China is waging a “campaign of psychological warfare” against vital American allies like Australia, using tactics such as “subversion, cyber intrusions, and harassment on the high seas.”
Prospective U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is expected to change President Donald Trump’s choice for the ambassadorial post in Australia, top Adm. Harry Harris, and “re-nominate” him for the South Korea envoy position instead, the Washington Post (WaPo) reported this week.
China’s Communist Party ruler Xi Jinping, meeting with high-level officials on Tuesday, celebrated advances to his totalitarian regime’s ambitions to keep political opponents silenced in the name of “national security.”
Australia has a “perfect right” to sail naval assets through the South China Sea and a recent robust exchange in the disputed waters is symbolic of that fact, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said.
The Philippines is reportedly looking to lodge a protest against China’s alleged presence of two military aircraft on a Chinese-built island in the South China Sea.
Steven Mosher, president of the Population Research Institute and author of Bully of Asia: Why China’s Dream Is the New Threat to World Order, told SiriusXM hosts Rebecca Mansour and Joel Pollak on Tuesday’s Breitbart News Tonight that China could “choke off trade” and “control access” to a critical maritime trade route if allowed to control the South China Sea.
Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen was on hand for a military drill on Friday, a day after China held the largest naval drill in its history in the disputed waters of the South China Sea. China also indicated this week that it will hold live-fire drills in the Straits of Taiwan.
Chinese Communist Party leader traveled to the South China Sea on Thursday to preside over what state media are calling “the country’s largest ever maritime military parade,” a series of exercises meant to intimidate rival powers in a region where Beijing has illegally colonized foreign territory.
The USS Theodore Roosevelt, a nuclear-powered super-carrier known by crew-members as the “Big Stick,” sailed through the disputed South China Sea this week, marking the latest display of America’s naval muscle in defiance of Beijing’s territorial claims in the region.
The U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) confirmed that Beijing has installed military equipment capable of jamming communications and radars on two of its outposts in the South China Sea’s Spratly Islands, reports the Wall Street Journal (WSJ), citing a satellite image and U.S. officials.
On Saturday, Japan activated its first marine combat unit since World War Two. China immediately panicked over the relatively small Japanese force, denouncing the revival of “militarism” under Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and advising every other Asian nation to go on “high alert” in the state-run Global Times.
Chinese communist leader Xi Jinping met United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in Beijing this weekend and reportedly urged the leader to further promote “global governance” to solve the world’s problems.
Beijing and Hanoi vowed to work out their differences over China’s claim to nearly the entire South China Sea, including territory within the maritime borders of Vietnam, in a meeting of high-level officials this week.
Contents: Russia-China strategy to use the UN to control Western foreign policy has stopped working; The West reacts to Russia’s poisoning of double-agent Skripal; China reacts furiously to Western expulsion of Russian diplomats; China ‘prepares for war’ with massive naval/air force drills in South China Sea
China held large-scale naval exercises involving dozens of vessels in the South China Sea this week as the government again seeks to show off its military power around the disputed territory.
China’s naval and air forces began what observers described as unusually large exercises in the Western Pacific and South China Sea this weekend, including H-6K bombers, Tu-154 reconnaissance planes, Yun-8 transport planes, and Su-30 and Su-35 fighters.
The USS Mustin American destroyer sailed within 12 nautical miles of Mischief Reef in the Spratly Islands on Friday, prompting an angry statement from Beijing claiming that China has “indisputable sovereignty” over the islands and accusing the United States of “harming regional peace and stability” with its patrols.
Contents: Report that Russia is helping the Taliban in Afghanistan contains delusional aspects; US warship sails near China’s illegal artificial island in the South China Sea
Peter Schweizer joined Breitbart News Daily host Alex Marlow on Wednesday to discuss the corruption rampant among America’s imperial political families, especially those bought off by an increasingly brazen and aggressive China.
Judging from the reactions by Chinese ministers and state-run media organs, Beijing is wary of former CIA Director Mike Pompeo’s appointment to Secretary of State, preferring his predecessor Rex Tillerson.
Contents: Trump blocks Broadcom acquisition of Qualcomm over national security; Government urges not doing business with China’s Huawei and ZTE
U.S. Seventh Fleet Commander Vice Adm. Phillip G. Sawyer told reporters on Tuesday that China’s construction of enhanced islands and military bases in the South China Sea, coupled with its aggressive rhetoric and opaque strategic objectives, are threatening the stability of the region.
China’s state media downplayed a $175 billion increase in defense spending proposed for 2018 on Tuesday, claiming the spending spike is “not much” and not intended to launch an “arms race” with the United States.
The aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson docked in Danang on Monday, marking the first visit by an American aircraft carrier to Vietnam since the end of the Vietnam War. The port call is seen as both a landmark in evolving U.S.-Vietnam relations and a strong message to China, which is taking aggressive action to seize control over the entire South China Sea.
Contents: India and Vietnam sign security agreements for the South China Sea; India’s relationship with Southeast Asian nations overshadowed by China
China has mastered the ability to design and build “larger” aircraft carriers, reports a state-run newspaper, days after the massive nuclear-powered USS Carl Vinson, an American carrier, sailed across the South China Sea.
The USS Carl Vinson, a massive nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, reportedly sailed deep in the South China Sea amid U.S.-China tensions over Beijing’s territorial disputes with several American allies in the region.
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s appearance at the Chinese-Filipino Business Club on Monday is proving to be a bottomless well of provocative comments. Not only did Duterte suggest, in a fit of bizarre black humor, that Beijing should consider annexing his country and turning it into a province of China, but he also proposed sending his troops to China for training instead of the United States.
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte took his rapprochement with China to a new level on Monday by joking that China should consider absorbing his country and turning it into a province of the People’s Republic.
China’s state-run People’s Daily published a defense of expansive maritime military plans on Tuesday grounded in the need to protect the One Belt, One Road (OBOR) program, which uses infrastructure to grant Beijing a foothold in nearly every region of the world.
U.S. Pacific Commander Admiral Harry Harris has been picked as the new U.S. Ambassador to Australia in a move that has been warmly welcomed Down Under.
The Philippine Daily Inquirer on Monday published photos showing the breathtaking extent of Chinese military construction on disputed reefs in the Spratly Islands area of the South China Sea. The Inquirer presents the aerial photography as evidence that China is almost finished transforming the reefs into “island fortress” for the purpose of controlling the entire region.
Contents: Syria’s Bashar al-Assad steps up use of chemical weapons on his own people; UN Security Council is worthless as Syria uses chemical weapons with impunity
