South China Sea

  • China’s most powerful leader President Xi has assumed a more direct control over the military with the new title of Commander-in-Chief of its Joint Operations Command Center, reports have confirmed. HeĀ appeared publicly for the first time in camouflage battle dress wearing the joint center’s insignia. Xi is also leading the ruling Communist Party and assumes…

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  • The South China Sea is currently breeding bad blood not just among the Asian tigers and their smaller neighbors but between China and Britain – the U.S. included. Recently, China has expressed its strong dissatisfaction with Britain over comments on the South China Sea from a senior British government official named Hugo Swire. The Chinese…

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  • In a courageous show of power, the Vietnamese authorities has taken hold of a Chinese vessel in the South China sea, reports say.

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  • Before people and governments start trading blames on political forces in and around the South China Sea, it’s wise to verify if the world now has another Bermuda Triangle. Chinese airliner was forced to change it’s flight course and return to Shanghai after the satellite communications system developed faults while it hovered around South China…

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  • US intelligence services spotted Chinese Shenyang J-11 and Xian JH-7 warplanes on Woody Island in disputed Paracel Islands chain in the past few days, US media reports. “China has deployed fighter jets to the same contested island in the South China Sea to which it also has sent surface-to-air missiles.” Navy Captain Darryn James, a spokesman…

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