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Bill Hayton says records show that a translation error some 80 years ago may be to blame By Bill Hayton South China Morning Post Where is the “southernmost point of Chinese territory”? It’s a controversial question and the least controversial answer might be Hainan Island . More controversial options would be the Paracel (Xisha) islands or the Spratlys (Nansha). But officially the southernmost point is Read More …
By Teshu Singh IPCS (Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies) The Taiwan Strait, the Korean Peninsula, the East China Sea (ECS) and the South China Sea (SCS) today have become major challenges for China in the Asia-Pacific. Besides posing a challenge to China, these regions have remained volatile in the recent months. What are the major trends? And more importantly, what are the major challenges Read More …
Source: The Daily Tribune China is infusing nearly $1.6 billion into Sansha City of Hainan province in what is being viewed as efforts to bolster its claim to the contested Spratly islands that the Chinese government earlier had placed under the jurisdiction of the Hainan provincial government which passed new regulations recently allowing its local police “to board, seize and expel foreign ships.” The official 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 …
PerryScope By Perry Diaz Communist China’s founder Mao Zedong used to say, “Power comes from the barrel of a gun.” It was true in his lifetime, and it was true during the reformist period of Deng Xiaoping. It was true during the tiger economy surge under Jiang Zemin. It was true during the globalization era of Hu Jintao. And it would be true in the Read More …
Source: The Philippine Star CEBU, Philippines – President Aquino is seeking an explanation from China on its order to police in the province of Hainan to board and take control of foreign ships that “illegally enter” disputed waters. Aquino said he had read reports about China’s order – lifted from an article in the state-controlled China Daily – and tasked Foreign Affairs Secretary Albert del Read More …
Manila Standard Today By AP China on Sunday remained undisturbed by its neighbors’ criticisms of its new passports showing territories in the South China Sea that it claims as its own but which its neighbors reject. And in a show of its growing military might, China successfully landed a fighter jet on its first aircraft carrier that entered service two months ago, the country’s official Read More …
Big News Network (UPI) PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — The disputed Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea is an integral part of Chinese territory, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said in Cambodia. Speaking at the East Asia Summit in the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh, Wen said China’s sovereignty over the Scarborough Shoal is indisputable, the official Xinhua News Agency reported. The claim over the Shoal, Read More …
PerryScope By Perry Diaz For the first time since the end of World War II, the United States achieved a state of relative peace in the world. President Barack Obama’s timetable of withdrawing American combat forces from Afghanistan by 2014 would mark the end of a century of warfare that began in 1914 when World War I erupted. Yes, the elusive dream of Pax Americana– Read More …
By Richard Javad Heydarian Asia Times MANILA – In a move that promises to raise regional tensions, China recently stepped up construction work in contested territories in the South China Sea. In late September, Beijing announced plans to accelerate the building of Sansha city, a newly formed administrative unit on Yongxing Island, also known as Woody Island, in the disputed Paracels archipelago. The city will Read More …