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South China Sea disputes: can Beijing keep it bilateral despite high-seas clashes?
Beijing is deeply concerned about the internationalisation of the South China Sea dispute ... brought to you by our award-winning team. High-seas confrontations have intensified as Philippine ...
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China's South China Sea Claims Dominate ASEAN Defense Ministers' Meet
Amir Daftari is a Newsweek reporter based in London, specializing in global affairs with a focus on the Middle East. He joined Newsweek in 2024 from the United Nations and has previously worked at ...
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China’s alarming rise on the seas is shifting the global order
China has risen and it is not peaceful. For anyone doubting that the latest example has taken place in an obscure part of the South China Sea ... has sailing the seas. It is centered around ...
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As Philippines sailor hurt in South China Sea incident, U.S. cites risk of "much more violent" confrontation
The White House condemned China on Monday over what the Philippines called an "intentional high-speed ramming" by the Chinese Coast Guard of one of its resupply ships in the South China Sea.
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U.S. accuses China of illegal, "dangerous maneuvers" as Philippine vessels blasted with water cannons
Manila, Philippines — Chinese coast guard vessels backed by navy ships fired powerful water cannons and blocked and sideswiped a Philippine patrol vessel on Wednesday in renewed aggression at a ...
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'Quad' foreign ministers decry dangerous South China Sea actions
“We are seriously concerned about the situation in the East and South China Seas and reiterate our strong opposition to any unilateral actions that seek to change the status quo by force or ...
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US accuses China of ‘coercive and risky’ behavior in the air over the Pacific
The US has seen more instances of “coercive and risky” behavior from Chinese pilots against US aircraft in the last two years over the East and South China Seas than in the entire decade befor ...
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The Day the U.S. Sent All 3 Nuclear Bombers to Warn China
As China continues its defiant attempts to colonize the contested islands in the East and South China Seas, the US has kept showing its military might to deter such expansionist ambitions.
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Report on U.S.-China Strategic Competition in South and East China Seas
Over the past 10 to 15 years, the South China Sea ... Islands in the East China Sea (ECS) are another concern for U.S. observers. PRC domination of China’s near-seas region—meaning the ...
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China's navy flexed new muscles in the South China Sea with its first dual aircraft carrier drills
Recent training occurred in the Yellow Sea and East and South China Seas. The two carriers and the other warships worked to enhance combat-ready forces and readiness, China's navy said.
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China's shipbuilders are teasing a new coast guard 'mothership,' and there's talk it could be an aircraft or drone carrier
Military bloggers in China speculate that it might be an aircraft carrier or a drone platform for the high seas. If so ... gigantic "monster ships" into the South China Sea, startling its neighbors.