South China Sea

China, the Philippines, and the Scarborough Shoal

Daniel Wagner | Posted 05.20.2012

Read More: Scarborough Shoal, United States, Zambales, Uss-North-Carolina, Philippines, China, South China Sea, World News

The message to China is simple: The South China Sea is not China's bathtub to do as it pleases. China must decide whether it wishes to maintain an antagonistic approach to territorial claims outside its legal and territorial reach.

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Our Man in Beijing?

John Feffer | Posted 04.23.2012

Read More: Xi Jinping, Hu Jintao, Military Spending, South China Sea, China, World News

Sure, a Chinese leader might like American basketball or admire American business. But the essential fact is that he leads a political, economic, and military apparatus dedicated to preserving itself and the country's territorial integrity.

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The Road to War in Asia

Eric Margolis | Posted 01.22.2012

Read More: Spratly-Islands, Indonesia, Paracel Islands, South China Sea, Berlin-Baghdad Railroad, u.s. Marines, China, British-German Naval Competition, British Empire, Darwin Australia, Otto Von Bismarck, US Navy, Asean, Wilhelm1, World News

Clever diplomacy, not more Marines, is the answer. The over-extended American Raj has got to face strategic reality or it risks going the way of the Soviet Empire.

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Marines Start Military Drills In South China Sea, Reassure China Not To Worry

AP | By JIM GOMEZ | Posted 12.17.2011

Read More: Spratlys, US China Relations, Marines Philippines, South China Sea, Foreign Affairs, South China Sea Standoff, Philippines, Pag Asa Island, China, Spratly Islands, World News

MANILA, Philippines -- About 3,000 U.S. and Filipino marines started two weeks of annual military drills in the Philippines on Monday that will includ...

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India, China Navies Face Off

The Diplomat | Rajeev Sharma | Posted 11.01.2011

Read More: Airavat, Chinese Navy, South China Sea, India South China Sea, South China Sea Standoff, Anna Hazare, India China, Hillary Clinton ASEAN, World News

The Chinese Navy confronted an Indian naval ship in the South China Sea in July, demanding to know why the Indian vessel was in Chinese territory desp...

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China's Aircraft Carrier: Why It Matters

David Millar | Posted 10.08.2011

Read More: U.S. Navy, Strategic, Beijing, Military Modernization, Aircraft Carrier, Varyag, China, South China Sea, World News

In the midst of last month's debt ceiling insanity, the Chinese Ministry of Defense quietly acknowledged what must be one of the world's worst-kept secrets: China is building an aircraft carrier.

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China Warns Manila It Won't Sit Idle In South China Sea Dispute

AP | Posted 10.02.2011

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MANILA, Philippines — The Philippines said Wednesday it would press its territorial claims in the South China Sea in accordance with internation...

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Philippines Seeks Regional Support In South China Sea Dispute

AP | Posted 09.28.2011

Read More: ASEAN Navy Chiefs Meeting, Foreign Affairs, South China Sea, Green News, Southeast Asia, Vietnam, Philippines, Asia, China, World News, South China Sea Dispute, World News

MANILA, Philippines -- The Philippines is seeking the backing of Southeast Asian governments for its proposal to separate disputed areas in the South ...

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BP's Profit Plummets As Company Struggles To Lift Production

AP | Robert Barr | Posted 09.25.2011

Read More: Bp, Tony Hayward, Australia, Stock Market, South China Sea, Earnings Call, British Petroleum, Trinidad, Azerbaijan, Second Quarter Earnings, Video, Business News

LONDON (AP) -- BP PLC on Tuesday reported lower than expected earnings for the second quarter as it struggled to lift production in the wake of the Gu...

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Vietnam Announces New President Amid China Rift

AP | Posted 09.24.2011

Read More: Vietnam President, Vietnam, Truong Tan Sang, South China Sea, Ho Chi Minh City, World News

HANOI, Vietnam -- Vietnam's lawmaking National Assembly appointed Truong Tan Sang as the communist country's new president Monday amid challenges at h...

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China Rips U.S. For 'Deeply Inappropriate' Military Drills

Posted 09.10.2011

Read More: US China, Admiral Mike Mullen, China South China Sea, China US, South China Sea, China, US South China Sea, World News

By Michael Martina BEIJING (Reuters) - China's military sharply criticized the United States on Monday for holding military drills in conteste...

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The Interwoven Era: The US, China and its New Aircraft Carrier

Peter Winter | Posted 09.07.2011

Read More: Taiwan, Defense, Military, People's Republic of China, South China Sea, Economy, Interdependence, Vietnam, United States, Navy, Philippines, People's Liberation Army, Aircraft Carrier, China, World News

What do a rusting Russian aircraft carrier, two top-ranking military officers, mounting trade deficits and half a trillion dollars in potential oil and gas in the South China Sea have to do with world peace?

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President Obama's Political Sepulcher

Bruce Fein | Posted 09.04.2011

Read More: Syria, Taiwan, Al Qaeda, President Obama, Cia, Libyan War, Kosovo War, South China Sea, Somalia, Pakistan, Afghan War, Persian Gulf War, Julius Caesar, Founding Fathers, Iraq, U.S. Constitution, China, Nuclear Weapons, Vietnam War, Russia, Korean War, Military Spending, War Powers Resolution, Hamid Karzai, Section 8, Zimbabwe, United Nations Security Council, Yemen, Clause 11, Bahrain, Executive Branch, Barack Obama, Burma, Caligula, Iraq War, Libya, Afghanistan, Kabul Bank, World War II, Article I, North Korea, Politics News

President Barack Obama's political sepulcher will be war. His extinguishment as a political comet could have been avoided if he had respected the exclusive constitutional responsibility of Congress to commence war.

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Chinese Warships Cross High Seas Off Japan Island

AP | Posted 08.23.2011

Read More: China Ships, China, China Navy, East China Sea, China Okinawa, South China Sea, China Japan, World News

TOKYO — Japan's Defense Ministry said Thursday 11 Chinese warships were spotted in international waters off the country's southern island of Oki...

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China Warns U.S. To Stay Out Of Sea Dispute

Posted 08.22.2011

Read More: US China Relations, South China Sea Standoff, South China Sea, China, World News

BEIJING (Reuters) – China urged the United States on Wednesday to leave the South China Sea dispute to the claimant states, saying that U.S. inv...

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China Sends Patrol Ship To Protect 'Rights And Sovereignty' In Disputed Sea

Posted 08.16.2011

Read More: China Sovereignty, South China Sea Conflict, South China Sea, South China Sea Patrol, China, World News

BEIJING, Jun (Reuters) – China sent one of its biggest civilian maritime patrol ships into the South China Sea to protect its "rights and sovere...

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The Mathematics of Military Balance

Fred Teng | Posted 06.19.2011

Read More: Taiwan, Hong Kong, South China Sea, Budget, Scott Van Buskirk, War, Asia Society, National Defense, U.S., Kissinger, Diplomacy, Nuclear, China, Fred Teng, People?S Republic of China, Pacific Command, Clinton, CHINA US Focus, Hillary, Admiral, White Paper, Seventh Fleet, Military, China-United States Exchange Foundation, Gdp, Robert Willard, Nfu, World News

Many experts have always claimed that China has the largest army in the world. But while in China, there is only one solider to protect every 585 citizens, in the United States, there is one solider for every 198 citizens.

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Obama Policies Not Matching Reality. Time to Pull His Nobel Prize and Elect a Non-Interventionist

Jake Diliberto | Posted 05.25.2011

Obama's attack in Libya is as ill advised and mismanaged as his Afghanistan surge or his domestic stimulus-spending circus. Without the approval of t...

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PHOTOS: 10 Must-See Spots In Vietnam

Black Tomato | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Slidepollajax, Vietnam, Asia, South China Sea, Vietnam Travel, Travel News

Here at Black Tomato we like to seek out the lesser known sides of the world's most precious destinations to create unusual bespoke trips that give yo...

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Standing Up to China, the Obama Way

Tom Doctoroff | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: President Obama, Western Capital Markets, Hu Jintao, Darfur, South China Sea, United Nations, Chinese Currency Appreciation, Chinese Expansionism, Obama, Nobel Peace Prize, Diplomacy, China, Iran, Iran Nuclear Program, Chinese Intransigence, Pla, Chinese Unemployment, Chinese Pragmatism, Incrementalism, G8, State-Owned Enterprise, Gradualism, Chinese Anxiety, China's Territorial Unity, Xi Jinping, Exports, China Social Cohesion, China Territorial Cohesion, People's Liberation Army, Liu Xiaobo, Capital Markets, Harmony, Macro-Economic Policy, Inflation, Communist Party, Security Council, g20, Chinese Middle Class, India, Hillary Clinton, Sudan, Currency Appreciation, Buddhism, Peaceful Rise, China's Economic Rebalancing, North Korea, World News

As the senior leader of one Chinese state-owned enterprise said to me, "I used to think [Obama] was nice. Then I realized he was intelligent. Now I know he's shrewd, just like Hu Jintao. Your leader is a strategist."

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Why the West Is Losing the Pacific to China, the Arab League, and Just About Everyone Else

Cleo Paskal | Posted 05.25.2011

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Nuku'alofa, Kingdom of Tonga. The small South Pacific country of the Kingdom of Tonga has been busy. In a two-week period around the start of Septembe...

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China Allows Rowdy Anti-Japanese Protests Over Territorial Disputes

AP | ALEXA OLESEN | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Anti-Japan Protests, South China Sea, Protests, Senkaku Islands, China Federation for Defending Diaoyutai, Diaoyu Islands, China, China Japan Territorial Disputes, Territorial Dispute, Japan, World News

BEIJING — Chinese authorities have allowed rowdy anti-Japanese demonstrations in several cities to defuse simmering public anger over a territor...

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The Hand That Pulls the Trigger

The Morningside Post | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Korea, China, South China Sea, Grandfather, College, Sino-Japanese War, Mao, Communist China, Rape of Nanjing, Japan, First Generation Immigrant, World News

For me, nationalism is the Koran-burning, the Arizona immigration law, and the Iraq War. Taking up arms to spread democracy? No, thank you. But apparently, nationalism is in my blood.

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You Have Been Warned: China's "Pressure Issue"

Rebecca Novick | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: U.S. Economy, G20 Summit, Human Rights, Economic Recession, South China Sea, Economy, Economic Crisis, China Human Rights Violations, Charter 08, China, U.S. Economic Crisis, g20, China Economy, U.S. China Economy, World News

Beijing has become a master of the veiled threat -- using words that suggest ominous consequences but which are rarely backed up with specifics

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China Plays Down U.S. Tensions At U.N. Summit

AP | FOSTER KLUG | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: China-US Relations, Un Summit, South China Sea, United Nations, Gary Locke, International Relations, Bejing, China, Wen Jiabao, Barack Obama, World News

NEW YORK — Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao expressed optimism Wednesday that the United States and China would resolve major trade frictions, even as...

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