Satellite Photos Show Island Building in Contested South China Sea
Vietnam is following in the footsteps of rival Spratly Islands claimant China in building military-purposed infrastructure, ...
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Vietnam Island Building in South China Sea Continuing At ‘Breakneck Pace’
The Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative estimates that Hanoi has created 641 new acres of land in the disputed Spratly ...
Island Chains: Can the US's Cold War Strategy Still Contain China?
China is expanding its military reach and presence within the three Pacific island chains with the world's largest navy.
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Exclusive-Satellite Images Show Fresh Chinese Bomber Deployment in South China Sea
Exclusive-Satellite Images Show Fresh Chinese Bomber Deployment in South China Sea By Greg Torode HONG KONG ... saying only the island's people can decide their future. (Reporting by Greg Torode ...
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Armed Clash in the South China Sea
Contingency Planning Memoranda identify plausible scenarios that could have serious consequences for U.S. interests and propose measures to both prevent and mitigate them. The risk of conflict in ...
Philippine defense chief calls China’s claims in the South China Sea ‘the biggest fiction and lie’
The Philippine defense chief has called China’s expansive claims in the South China Sea as “the biggest fiction and lie” that ...
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Even as US military stretched and distracted, South China Sea activity rose: paper
The United States increased its activity in the South China Sea last year to “varying levels ... the number of “island-intrusive” freedom of navigation operations (FONOPs) and transits ...