China launched military drills in four separate seas on Monday — Two are being held in the South China Sea near the disputed Paracel Islands, one in the East China Sea, and one in the northern Bohai Sea, while live-fire drills are scheduled in the southern Yellow Sea.
Vietnamese President Nguyễn Phú Trọng called for China to “exercise restraint” in the South China Sea on Thursday in a virtual speech at the 75th annual U.N. General Assembly. The call for moderation follows months of Beijing’s belligerent actions in the contested maritime region.
In a virtual speech at the 75th annual U.N. general assembly on Tuesday, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said that his country “firmly rejects” Beijing’s recent “attempts to undermine” international law by illegally encroaching upon other nations’ sovereign territory in the South China Sea.
Indonesia’s foreign ministry lodged a formal protest with Beijing on Monday after a Chinese coastguard ship intruded into the country’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ) in the South China Sea for two straight days.
China must “be prepared” for war amid escalating territorial disputes with neighboring countries that have increased the risk of military conflict in recent months, the Chinese Communist Party newspaper Global Times argued on Friday.
Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) warplanes violated Taiwan’s airspace for the second consecutive day on Thursday, according to the island nation’s defense ministry.
A report published by Nikkei Asian Review (NAR) on Thursday asserted that Chinese dictator Xi Jinping is planning “another brutal purge” of his military leadership.
A Vietnamese fishing crew say a Chinese coast guard vessel rammed their boat this summer in the South China Sea. During the attack, the Chinese crew allegedly beat the Vietnamese fishermen and forced them to sign a statement handing over $20,000 worth of fish and equipment, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday.
Secretary of State Michael Pompeo on Wednesday announced the United States will place restrictions on Chinese diplomats in the U.S. in a move reciprocal to those placed on American diplomats on China.
Chinese state media on Friday claimed the People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) “expelled” an American destroyer, the USS Mustin, from the South China Sea near the Xisha Islands, known in the West as the Paracel Islands.
China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) launched two missiles, including one known as an “aircraft-carrier killer,” into the South China Sea on Wednesday morning, a Chinese military source told the South China Morning Post (SCMP).
The Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) recently debuted its latest transport helicopter, the Z-8L, capable of transporting an all-terrain assault vehicle.
China’s ambassador to Hungary, Duan Jielong, was elected to a seat on the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea on Monday. The United States strongly objected to Duan’s nomination, arguing that the People’s Republic of China (PRC) is the world’s leading maritime criminal.
Philippine Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana said on Sunday that Bejing’s “nine-dash line” – used to illegally claim nearly all of the South China Sea – is a figment of the Chinese Communist Party’s imagination.
Malaysia said Monday that a Vietnamese fisherman died from gunshot wounds sustained in a conflict in the South China Sea after the nation’s coast guard tried to ward off two Vietnamese boats suspected of illegal fishing.
China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) garrison in Hong Kong released footage of its forces conducting a live-fire drill in the South China Sea on Sunday, two days after the U.S. Navy said it carried out exercises in the hotly contested maritime region.
Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-Wen in a video statement at a U.S. think tank event in Washington on Wednesday touted the strength of the U.S.-Taiwan relationship amid a growing threat from China.
A multi-ethnic coalition against the Communist Party of China convened an event Sunday in Washington, DC, urging Americans to join their efforts against Beijing’s illegal territorial claims, affecting over half a dozen countries.
China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Navy recently debuted a new bomber as it carried out an “attack exercise” in the South China Sea, China’s Ministry of National Defense announced Thursday.
In an op-ed published by the Chinese Communist Party’s Global Times on Thursday, Black Agenda Report editor and former Green Party candidate Ajamu Baraka took China’s side against the United States and trashed America as a “white supremacist settler colonial state.”
The Chinese Communist government on Friday ordered the United States consulate in Chengdu to close in retaliation for the U.S. shuttering the Chinese consulate in Houston, Texas.
China’s naval aviation forces held “live-fire maritime target attack drills” in the South China Sea involving “JH-7 fighter bombers” and deployed several warplanes to the disputed Paracel Islands late last week, Chinese state media reported on Monday.
The United States rejected China’s claim to own offshore resources in the South China Sea on Monday, prompting a response from Chinese media questioning the mental stability of the U.S. government.
Chinese Communist Party (CCP) mouthpiece the Global Times accused Washington on Tuesday of stirring up maritime “trouble” and threatened to prepare for regional “military confrontations” with the U.S. in response to U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s statement declaring Beijing’s claims in the South China Sea “unlawful.”
The U.S. military has documented a “surge of maritime activity” by China in the South China Sea and the East China Sea since the coronavirus pandemic began, indicating that Beijing has been capitalizing on the global distraction caused by the crisis to bolster its illegal claims to territory in the waters, Reuters reported on Friday.
China says it has neared completion in building a 450-foot-long search and rescue (SAR) ship, the largest SAR ship in the world, according to Beijing, Radio Free Asia (RFA) reported on Wednesday.
A Vietnamese city fined the CEO of Bayer Vietnam $1,286 on Thursday for distributing a map of the South China Sea depicting China’s controversial “nine-dash line,” which Beijing uses to illegally claim territory in the sea, Vietnamese online newspaper VnExpress reported on Thursday.
The U.S. Pacific Air Forces (PACAF) announced on Tuesday that American B-1B Lancer bombers recently “conducted a mission over the South China Sea, just days after training with the U.S. Navy near Hawaii, demonstrating the credibility of U.S. Air Force forces to address a diverse and uncertain security environment.”
China expects to increase its defense budget for 2020 citing increased “defense threats from Western countries led by the U.S.” according to a report by the state-run Global Times on Tuesday.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told Breitbart News that the United States considers efforts by the Chinese Communist Party in Beijing to build influence around the world and here in the United States to be a “risk” to the nation’s national security.
Chinese military aircraft have been spotted at China’s largest illegal military base in the disputed South China Sea, suggesting that the People’s Liberation Army Navy Air Force (PLANAF) have started to use the site as a strategic operations base, Radio Free Asia (RFA) reported on Wednesday, citing military surveillance by defense intelligence source Jane’s.
Michael Pillsbury, one of America’s leading experts on China, said Tuesday that it was then-Vice President Joe Biden who stopped U.S. Navy patrols from challenging China’s territorial claims in the South China Sea, as one example of why he would be weak on China if elected president.
A Philippines state-owned radio station has been accused of spreading Chinese Communist Party (CCP) propaganda for airing a program promoting Chinese culture and Mandarin language, Philippine news outlet Coconuts Manila reported on Monday.
The Chinese embassy in Manila released a propaganda music video this weekend depicting China and the Philippines as working together toward a “shared future” in “one sea” or “Iisang Dagat,” in the Philippine language, referring to the disputed South China Sea.
The Philippines says China demonstrated “hostile intent” when it pointed a radar gun at a Philippine navy ship in Philippine waters in February, Voice of America (VOA) reported on Wednesday.
Officials in Vietnam accused China of having “seriously violated” the country’s sovereignty in the South China Sea, the South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported on Monday.
Three U.S. warships in the South China Sea have been joined by a frigate supplied by ally Australia to patrol an area where a Chinese vessel is suspected to be illegally exploring for oil, officials said Wednesday.
On Sunday, China’s Ministry of Civil Affairs and Ministry of Natural Resources released “standard” names for 80 geographical features in the disputed South China Sea, in an act “reaffirming China’s sovereignty in the region,” Chinese state media reported on Monday.
Taiwan organized warships on Saturday night to monitor the movements of a Chinese carrier strike group after Japan spotted it heading towards the western Pacific, the South China Morning Post reported on Sunday.
The United States Department of State has demanded China stop “exploiting the distraction” caused by the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic to ramp up its “unlawful” colonization of the South China Sea in a statement released on Monday.
