Amid China’s increasing influence in the South China Sea and off the coast of Taiwan, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with his Southeast Asian counterparts in Indonesia to warn them against Chinese coercion, The Washington Post reported.
China has already gained de facto control over huge swathes of the South China Sea, it daily sends aircraft and warships close to Taiwan, and it contests passages of foreign warships through the South China Sea and Taiwan Strait. Yet the People's Liberation
Army (PLA) is still dissatisfied,
The film, directed by Greta Gerwig, was set to hit theatres in Vietnam on July 21, aligning with its big-screen release in most countries around the world.
The Chinese posturing in the South China Sea, Hong Strait and Indo-Pacific is not hidden to the world community and flexing of military might in the South Asia either. Despite this, the Chinese Foreign Minister asserted that "China does not engage in competition between major powers" and "op
On Tuesday, the US released footage of what it called an "unnecessarily aggressive maneuver" by a Chinese fighter pilot during an intercept of a US Air Force RC-135 aircraft on May 26, Standard Media reported.
According to a recent investigation by Nikkei Asia, China deliberately delays clearances, which prevents corporations like Japan's Nippon Telegraph and Telephone, Singapore Telecommunications, and the US internet titans Meta and Google from implementing their undersea cable projects, accordi
Hang emphasised that Vietnam has sufficient legal grounds and historical evidence testifying sovereignty over Spratly and Paracels in accordance with international law, as per Vietnam News.
According to Asia Times, Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr has not only revitalized defence ties with traditional Western allies but has also doubled down on strategic cooperation with like-minded regional states pushing back against China's South China Sea assertiveness.
China's construction of artificial islands in the Spratlys, initially promised to be non-militarized, soon revealed a different truth. These islands now boast airstrips, harbours, radar stations, anti-aircraft guns, anti-ship cruise missiles, and long-range surface-to-air missiles.
While addressing a press conference in Hanoi, Vietnamese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Pham Thu Hang said that China and the Philippines were "violating the sovereign rights and jurisdictions of Vietnam."
The sea phase held from May 17 to 19, 2023 witnessed the participation of Anti Submarine Warfare corvette INS Kavaratti with an integral Chetak helicopter and a Dornier Maritime Patrol Aircraft.