Singapore’s leader on Tuesday appealed for stability in the significantly tense relationship in between the United States and China relations, revealing issue that either the 2 world powers might clash, or that the U.S. might turn its back on the area. On the other hand, the leading diplomats and defense authorities of allies U.S. and […]

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Australia has actually sent out a diplomatic note to the United Nations rejecting China’s extensive maritime claims in the South China Sea, signing up with the growing list of nations that have actually pressed back versus Beijing’s anticipation of “historic rights” to the challenged waters. The note was sent out to the UN on Thursday […]

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Indonesia is staging a major marine exercise today in the Java Sea and the South China Sea, the objected to waterway where tensions have actually increased recently in between China and the United States. The Indonesian Navy’s Western Fleet held an exercise in the Java Sea on Wednesday as part of a series of drills […]

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Malaysia on Wednesday required countries to refrain from “military posturing” amidst stress in the South China Sea, 2 days after Washington revealed a harder position on Beijing’s territorial claims in the objected to waterway. Malaysian Foreign Minister Hishammuddin Hussein required cooperation amongst Southeast Asian nations in fixing stress in the maritime area as he made […]

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Less than a week after China sent out a study vessel into Vietnamese waters, vessel-tracking software application shows that the China Coast Guard has actually appeared at Vanguard Bank, an understood South China Sea flashpoint in between Vietnam and China. The coastguard ship came within 30 nautical miles of a Vietnamese oil well, and its […]

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Japan and the members of the Southeast Asian bloc voiced issues Thursday over increasing stress in the South and East China Seas, as China’s assertiveness grows and ASEAN thinks about when to resume settlements with Beijing on a standard procedure. Leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Countries, or ASEAN, will hold a virtual top […]

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The Indonesian foreign minister stated Thursday there was “no reason to negotiate” as she declared Jakarta’s position that it has no overlapping claims with Beijing in the South China Sea, days after Indonesia sent out the U.N. chief another letter on the subject. The diplomatic letter to United Nations Secretary- General António Guterres, dated June […]

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The Philippines inaugurated a beaching ramp on Pag-asa Island on Tuesday, with authorities explaining it as the first of numerous upgrades on the area that Manila claims in South China Sea waters near where Beijing has actually developed military stations. The ramp is a concrete pier that will enable ships to dock on Pag-asa, Philippine […]

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Geopolitical stress in the middle of a global pandemic led Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte to keep a secret military pact with the United States undamaged in the meantime, Manila’s leading diplomat and other federal government officials stated Wednesday. The Philippines was seeking to renew bilateral ties with its earliest ally by holding back for a […]

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A China-based group has actually silently performed cyber espionage versus Southeast Asian federal governments throughout the past couple of years, gathering “specific documents,” to name a few information, from contaminated computer systems, a cybersecurity business stated in a report. Naikon, a group of hackers, released a software application called Aria-body to target federal government firms […]

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