UN Excessive Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet voiced alarm Wednesday that curbs on freedom of expression had elevated in 12 Asia-Pacific countries throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, with dictatorships and democracies alike stifling public debate within the title of preventing faux information. “Arrests for expressing discontent or allegedly spreading false information through the press and social […]

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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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Reports of Chinese strategies to declare an Air Defense Recognition Zone over the contested South China Sea have actually resurfaced in news media amidst increasing stress in the area. Professionals stay doubtful that China would take such an intriguing, hard-to- impose procedure. The South China Morning Post reported today that China has actually prepared for […]

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Indonesia added its weight to current diplomatic relocations by ASEAN members opposing Beijing’s claims in the South China Sea, sending out an unusual diplomatic note to the head of the United Nations previously today. The letter, sent out to U.N. Secretary- General António Guterres on Tuesday, defined the Indonesian federal government’s assistance for a 2016 […]

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China states it is nearing conclusion of a 450- foot-long search and rescue ship, the biggest such vessel in its fleet, that will get in service with the Ministry of Transportation’s South China Sea Rescue Bureau. The ship will overshadow coastguard vessels from other countries in those contested waters, where mishaps at sea are progressively […]

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India has actually voiced an unusual note of criticism of China’s assertive actions in the South China Sea, amidst a stress in between the 2 Asian powers on their long land border. A Brand-new Delhi-based analyst stated India is worried over China pushing South China Sea claimant countries that India thinks about partners. India is […]

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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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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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Fishermen’s associations in Vietnam and the Philippines objected Monday China’s yearly summer season fishing ban in the South China Sea and required their national federal governments to oppose it, amidst the danger of rigorous enforcement by the China Coast Guard. ” Vietnamese fishermen have total rights to fish in waters under their sovereignty,” the Vietnam […]

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China is swearing stringent enforcement of its yearly summer fishing ban in parts of the objected to South ChinaSea The ban started Friday and is most likely to be opposed by other claimant countries. The three-and-a-half- month ban, focused on saving fish stocks, extends into a location of the South China Sea as much as […]

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