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PerryScope By Perry Diaz With China moving closer to total control of the South China Sea, the other five claimant countries are getting nervous… very nervous. Indeed, China’s neighbors are so nervous that they’re arming themselves in an attempt to stop China’s aggressive advances into their territories. But at the rate China is building her naval forces and deploying them to the South China Sea Read More …
Source: Bankok Post An authoritative new report on likely oil and gas reserves in the heavily disputed regions of the South China has concluded that there probably aren’t any. http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/asia/344342/no-useable-oil-in-disputed-areas-us The study, certain to shock political circles in China and the Asean region, concludes for the first time that the bickering and sometimes fighting countries expecting riches under the Spratly and Paracel Islands are going Read More …
Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) The South China Sea is a critical world trade route and a potential source of hydrocarbons, particularly natural gas, with competing claims of ownership over the sea and its resources. Stretching from Singapore and the Strait of Malacca in the southwest to the Strait of Taiwan in the northeast, the South China Sea is one the most important trade Read More …
PerryScope By Perry Diaz In a matter of days, the Philippine government took strong actions against the two most powerful countries in the world – the United States and the People’s Republic of China. Now, that’s what I call “wow, wow!” Yep, a double wow, indeed. But as it turned out, the country was hit with a double whammy! The first whammy was China’s seizure Read More …
Source: Focus Taiwan News Channel Taipei, Jan. 17 (CNA) Taiwan reiterated its sovereignty over the disputed Spratly Islands Thursday after the Philippines recently revealed its plan to repair an airstrip in the area. Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman Steve Hsia said that from the perspective of history, geography and international law, the Spratly Islands, the Paracel Islands, the Macclesfield Bank and the Pratas Islands in Read More …
By JEREMY PAGE The Wall Street Journal BEIJING—A Chinese official clarified new regulations allowing Chinese police to board foreign ships in parts of the disputed South China Sea that had raised fresh alarm among some of China’s neighbors. Several experts on the region had said the rules, which have yet to be published in full, appeared to apply to waters around islands that China claims, Read More …
Source: Tuoi Tre News A Han-Chinese map of China published in 1904 reveals that China stretched as far south as Hainan Island, and that Hoang Sa (Paracel) and Truong Sa (Spratly) Islands did not belong to China. Shanghai Publishing House printed the map whose Vietnamese name is “Hoàng triều trực tỉnh địa dư toàn đồ” (Map of all Chinese provinces). After holding it for 30 Read More …
PerryScope By Perry Diaz In the 1886 novel, “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,” the author Robert Louis Stevenson wrote about strange occurrences between Dr. Henry Jekyll and Edward Hyde. As the story goes, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde were two personalities within one person or commonly known as “split personality.” In recent years, China – or her government – manifested a Read More …
BY JANE PERLEZ NEW YORK TIMES BEIJING — In a show of its resolve in a dispute over the South China Sea, China sharply criticized Vietnam on Thursday for passing a law that claims sovereignty over the Paracel and Spratly Islands, saying they are the “indisputable” territory of China. The Foreign Ministry in Beijing summoned the Vietnamese ambassador, Nguyen Van Tho, to strongly protest the Read More …