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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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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An American Navy combat ship today carried out “routine operations” near a Chinese geological survey ship in the South China Sea, U.S. authorities stated, after the Chinese vessel in June went into a location where Vietnam has actually revealed interest in checking out for oil. The maneuvers in waters around the Spratly Islands echoed occasions […]

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China has actually increased its pace of deep sea surveys in the South China Sea, fretting other countries and claimant states. Specialists state that the mapping of the sea flooring is a pressure method in challenged waters and might assist China’s Navy in keeping track of submarine traffic. China has the world’s biggest fleet of […]

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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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China’s navy just recently gathered 1.5 lots of vegetables on its most significant military base and civilian center in the Paracel Islands, in what state media represented Wednesday as vindication of Beijing’s position that disputed land features it claims in the South China Sea can sustain human life. The navy has actually finished a sand-to- […]

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On the exact same day as a call in between the defense ministers of Malaysia and China, a Chinese survey ship Friday left the website of a questionable pressure campaign in Malaysian waters that at one point drew Malaysian, Australian, and U.S. warships into the South China Sea. The Hai Yang Di Zhi 8 survey […]

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The Philippines’ defense chief on Tuesday minimized Beijing’s most current aggressive relocation in the South China Sea, stating it appeared that Chinese sailors had no real objective of injuring Filipinos when they pointed a laser weapon at a Philippine navy ship. Although the Chinese relocation was viewed as aggressive, it likely was suggested to impose […]

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China has actually released a patrol vessel from its Coast Guard to the Scarborough Shoal, the current salvo in its continual pressure campaign versus Philippine-claimed features in the challenged South China Sea, ship-tracking information shows. The China Coast Guard (CCG) ship 3302 was at Scarborough Shoal since Wednesday, Radio Free Asia can verify. It left […]

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