From EurasiaReview
By ISDA
''The last two years have witnessed a heady interplay of inter-state
disputes and constant strategic manoeuvring, if not intrigue, in the
South China Sea (SCS). Beyond anything else, it gives the world a sure
glimpse of the possibility of future energy wars over oil and gas
resources in this energy-rich area, which is moreover emerging as a
hotbed of global power politics. Understanding the South China Sea
dispute thus involves a series of complex and interwoven technical,
legal, economic and geographic claims, the most critical of which
involves issues of territory and sovereignty.''
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Showing posts with label south china sea. Show all posts
Showing posts with label south china sea. Show all posts
Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Wednesday, December 5, 2012
''China warns India against South China Sea oil exploration''
From The Hindu
''China has said that it “opposes any unilateral energy exploration” in the South China Sea, in response to Monday’s statement by Navy Chief Admiral D.K. Joshi saying that the Indian Navy was prepared to protect its interests and deploy its forces in the contested waters.''
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''China has said that it “opposes any unilateral energy exploration” in the South China Sea, in response to Monday’s statement by Navy Chief Admiral D.K. Joshi saying that the Indian Navy was prepared to protect its interests and deploy its forces in the contested waters.''
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Tuesday, December 4, 2012
India: ''We’ll send force to protect our interests in South China Sea, says Navy chief''
From The Hindu
''As National Security Adviser Shivshankar Menon is in Beijing for talks on the boundary question, Navy Chief Admiral D.K. Joshi has termed the situation in the South China Sea “complex,” as China is rapidly modernising its Navy, and said India will protect its economic interests in the disputed waters by sending forces, if need be. “Yes, you are right. The modernisation of the Chinese Navy is truly impressive. It is actually a major, major cause for concern…, which we continuously evaluate, and [we will] work out our options and strategies,” he said in reply to questions at the customary Navy Day press conference here on Monday.''
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''As National Security Adviser Shivshankar Menon is in Beijing for talks on the boundary question, Navy Chief Admiral D.K. Joshi has termed the situation in the South China Sea “complex,” as China is rapidly modernising its Navy, and said India will protect its economic interests in the disputed waters by sending forces, if need be. “Yes, you are right. The modernisation of the Chinese Navy is truly impressive. It is actually a major, major cause for concern…, which we continuously evaluate, and [we will] work out our options and strategies,” he said in reply to questions at the customary Navy Day press conference here on Monday.''
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Thursday, October 18, 2012
''Back to the Future: The U.S. Navy Retuns to the Philippines''
From The Diplomat
''U.S. and Philippine officials recently confirmed that Subic Bay – a natural harbor 80 km north of Manila that was the US 7th Fleet’s home until 1992 – is going to be playing a much larger role in U.S. Pacific Fleet deployments from now on.
The former U.S. naval port and its air station, now known as Subic Bay Freeport Zone, is set to host U.S. ships, marines and aircraft on a semi-permanent basis. To compare it to a relationship: the U.S. isn’t moving back in, but it’s going to be leaving a few things at the apartment. And it’s a bit more than just a toothbrush.''
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''U.S. and Philippine officials recently confirmed that Subic Bay – a natural harbor 80 km north of Manila that was the US 7th Fleet’s home until 1992 – is going to be playing a much larger role in U.S. Pacific Fleet deployments from now on.
The former U.S. naval port and its air station, now known as Subic Bay Freeport Zone, is set to host U.S. ships, marines and aircraft on a semi-permanent basis. To compare it to a relationship: the U.S. isn’t moving back in, but it’s going to be leaving a few things at the apartment. And it’s a bit more than just a toothbrush.''
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Wednesday, October 3, 2012
''Obama Moves Two Aircraft Carrier Battle Groups Into the Middle of South China Sea Dispute''
From 'There are no Sunglasses'
''TOKYO – It’s probably just a coincidence; no need to worry yet. But the U.S. has quietly assembled a powerful air, land and sea armada not far from where Japan and China are squaring off over disputed islands in the East China Sea.
Two Navy aircraft carrier battle groups and a Marine Corps air-ground task force have begun operating in the Western Pacific, within easy reach of the Senkaku Islands. That’s where Japanese and Chinese patrol boats are engaged in an increasingly tense standoff.''
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''TOKYO – It’s probably just a coincidence; no need to worry yet. But the U.S. has quietly assembled a powerful air, land and sea armada not far from where Japan and China are squaring off over disputed islands in the East China Sea.
Two Navy aircraft carrier battle groups and a Marine Corps air-ground task force have begun operating in the Western Pacific, within easy reach of the Senkaku Islands. That’s where Japanese and Chinese patrol boats are engaged in an increasingly tense standoff.''
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Saturday, September 22, 2012
''Pew unveils the US-China pantomime''
a must read...........From Indian PunchLine
By MK Bhadrakumar
By MK Bhadrakumar
''The real winner of the Daiaoyu/Senkaku tensions of the past few
weeks is of course Washington. It utilized the developing tide of
nationalism in Japan to get away with the deployment of the
anti-ballistic missile defence system [BMD] on Japanese soil. It’s a
first-class scoop. With this, the US’ BMD arc around Russia is further tightening.
The BMD deployment in Japan is supposedly against North Korea’s missiles, while Russian commentators insist it is against China,
but in reality, it is part of the US’ global strategy to establish
nuclear superiority, which entails deflating Russia’s assertions of
keeping a global strategic balance with the US despite its loss of
superpower status. ''
''Australia counters Chinese threat''
From SMH
''AUSTRALIA has been quietly building a regional defence coalition to restrain China's increasingly ''aggressive'' and ''autistic'' international behaviour, an influential adviser to the Pentagon says.
Edward Luttwak bluntly contradicts Australian and US denials that they see China as a threat or want to contain its rise.
''Australians view themselves as facing a strategic threat,'' he writes in his coming book, The Rise of China v The Logic of Strategy.''
''AUSTRALIA has been quietly building a regional defence coalition to restrain China's increasingly ''aggressive'' and ''autistic'' international behaviour, an influential adviser to the Pentagon says.
Edward Luttwak bluntly contradicts Australian and US denials that they see China as a threat or want to contain its rise.
''Australians view themselves as facing a strategic threat,'' he writes in his coming book, The Rise of China v The Logic of Strategy.''
Friday, September 21, 2012
''A «Price Tag» October Surprise in September for Obama''
From Strategic Culture
By Wayne Madsen
''Manufacturing twin political crises: one over a controversial American and/or Israeli-made anti-Muslim film that resulted in the siege of the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya and the deaths of four personnel, including the U.S. ambassador Christopher Stevens, and a very tense Chinese-Japanese crisis over the disputed Diaoyu (as they are known in Chinese) or Senkaku (as they are known in Japanese) uninhabited islands in the East China Sea that could bring the U.S., via its treaty obligations with Japan, into a conflict with China, have rocked the Obama administration’s foreign policy… The appearance that Obama cannot handle dual world crises has played into the hands of Romney and his neo-conservative pro-Israeli advisers.''
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By Wayne Madsen
''Manufacturing twin political crises: one over a controversial American and/or Israeli-made anti-Muslim film that resulted in the siege of the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya and the deaths of four personnel, including the U.S. ambassador Christopher Stevens, and a very tense Chinese-Japanese crisis over the disputed Diaoyu (as they are known in Chinese) or Senkaku (as they are known in Japanese) uninhabited islands in the East China Sea that could bring the U.S., via its treaty obligations with Japan, into a conflict with China, have rocked the Obama administration’s foreign policy… The appearance that Obama cannot handle dual world crises has played into the hands of Romney and his neo-conservative pro-Israeli advisers.''
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Thursday, September 20, 2012
''China fears India backing Japan as tussle escalates''
From Times of India
''Chinese officials are worried that the growing relationship between India and Japan, its main rival, is meant to contain and counter it. This revelation comes from two Chinese experts at a time when China is engaged in a serious conflict with Japan over the Diaoyu Islands.
“India’s border disputes with China have yet to be resolved, therefore it views a stronger relationship with Japan as a way to counter balance China’s growing influence in the Asia Pacific region,” the experts said in an article published by the government owned think-tank, China Institute of International Studies.''
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''Chinese officials are worried that the growing relationship between India and Japan, its main rival, is meant to contain and counter it. This revelation comes from two Chinese experts at a time when China is engaged in a serious conflict with Japan over the Diaoyu Islands.
“India’s border disputes with China have yet to be resolved, therefore it views a stronger relationship with Japan as a way to counter balance China’s growing influence in the Asia Pacific region,” the experts said in an article published by the government owned think-tank, China Institute of International Studies.''
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Wednesday, September 12, 2012
''Aquino signs order renaming South China Sea''
From Gulf News
''Manila: Philippine President Benigno Aquino signed an administrative order which identified the South China Sea facing the western flank of his country as “West Philippines Sea of the Republic of the Philippines”.
“This is based on local and international laws prescribing baselines and the use and management of natural resources near the country,” said Aquino when he released on Tuesday the Administrative Order (AO) No 29 which he signed seven days ago, on September 5.''
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''Manila: Philippine President Benigno Aquino signed an administrative order which identified the South China Sea facing the western flank of his country as “West Philippines Sea of the Republic of the Philippines”.
“This is based on local and international laws prescribing baselines and the use and management of natural resources near the country,” said Aquino when he released on Tuesday the Administrative Order (AO) No 29 which he signed seven days ago, on September 5.''
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Tuesday, September 11, 2012
''Asian Nationalism at Sea''
From ISN Blog
''One should not be too alarmist. The US has declared that the Senkaku Islands (administered by the Okinawa Prefecture when it was returned to Japan in 1972) are covered by the US-Japan security treaty. Meanwhile, the standoff over the Scarborough Shoal has calmed down, and, while Japan recalled its ambassador from South Korea over the Dokdo incident, it is unlikely the two countries would come to blows.''
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''One should not be too alarmist. The US has declared that the Senkaku Islands (administered by the Okinawa Prefecture when it was returned to Japan in 1972) are covered by the US-Japan security treaty. Meanwhile, the standoff over the Scarborough Shoal has calmed down, and, while Japan recalled its ambassador from South Korea over the Dokdo incident, it is unlikely the two countries would come to blows.''
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Friday, August 31, 2012
''Vietnam, China lurch towards crisis''
From Asia Times
By Peter Lee
''Dee Woo, a columnist and provocateur from the pro-panda side of the street, contended in a column that war between China and Vietnam was "inevitable" since the PRC would find the temptation to give Vietnam a military comeuppance irresistible, and the United States and the international oil companies would see no alternative to abandoning Hanoi for the sake of joint development of South China Sea oil resources.''
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By Peter Lee
''Dee Woo, a columnist and provocateur from the pro-panda side of the street, contended in a column that war between China and Vietnam was "inevitable" since the PRC would find the temptation to give Vietnam a military comeuppance irresistible, and the United States and the international oil companies would see no alternative to abandoning Hanoi for the sake of joint development of South China Sea oil resources.''
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Friday, August 24, 2012
''Deeper Asian splits possible after South China Sea spat'': Indonesia
Thursday, August 23, 2012
F. William Engdahl - ''Obama’s Geopolitical China ''Pivot''
From Voltaire.net
''The US military has been steadily positioning itself along the strategic sea lanes surrounding China to deal potentially deadly blows to the mainland as well as cutting off its oil corridors to the Middle East and Africa. This author breaks down a situation where the noose tightening around China could generate a major new conflict zone in the not too distant future.''
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''The US military has been steadily positioning itself along the strategic sea lanes surrounding China to deal potentially deadly blows to the mainland as well as cutting off its oil corridors to the Middle East and Africa. This author breaks down a situation where the noose tightening around China could generate a major new conflict zone in the not too distant future.''
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Tuesday, August 21, 2012
''China’s New City: Is this Beijing’s Pivot?''
From ISN Blog
''It’s not relocating aircraft carriers to the Pacific or stationing 2,500 marines in Australia but China’s provocative establishment of a new city, Sansha, in the disputed Paracels chain takes the geopolitical drama in the South China Sea to a new stage. This escalating assertiveness may have a larger strategic importance as part of Beijing’s response to the often touted US “pivot” or rebalancing in Asia.''
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''It’s not relocating aircraft carriers to the Pacific or stationing 2,500 marines in Australia but China’s provocative establishment of a new city, Sansha, in the disputed Paracels chain takes the geopolitical drama in the South China Sea to a new stage. This escalating assertiveness may have a larger strategic importance as part of Beijing’s response to the often touted US “pivot” or rebalancing in Asia.''
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Monday, August 6, 2012
''China’s South China Sea moves: part of a bigger gameplan?''
From Russia & India Report
''A series of recent moves shows that China is upping the ante with regards to its claims in the South China Sea. Earlier this week, China announced the deployment of a permanent military presence in the South China Sea in Sansha City, raising the hackles of many other countries which have claims in the region. Sansha City was established on Yongxing Island(Woody Island) in the southernmost Chinese province of Hainan. The Yongxing Island forms a part of the Xisha Islands in the South China Sea.''
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''A series of recent moves shows that China is upping the ante with regards to its claims in the South China Sea. Earlier this week, China announced the deployment of a permanent military presence in the South China Sea in Sansha City, raising the hackles of many other countries which have claims in the region. Sansha City was established on Yongxing Island(Woody Island) in the southernmost Chinese province of Hainan. The Yongxing Island forms a part of the Xisha Islands in the South China Sea.''
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Friday, August 3, 2012
''Indonesia Talks Defense With China''
From The Diplomat
''ASEAN is in a state of disarray over how to handle China. Whether intentional or not, Beijing’s actions in the South China Sea have managed to polarize the Southeast Asian organization to a thus far unseen extent. Some member states seek a strong collective approach to South China Sea disputes with the Chinese, while others think sovereignty issues are best dealt with bilaterally. This gap is proving all but impossible to bridge.''
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''ASEAN is in a state of disarray over how to handle China. Whether intentional or not, Beijing’s actions in the South China Sea have managed to polarize the Southeast Asian organization to a thus far unseen extent. Some member states seek a strong collective approach to South China Sea disputes with the Chinese, while others think sovereignty issues are best dealt with bilaterally. This gap is proving all but impossible to bridge.''
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Thursday, August 2, 2012
''US adding strategic bombers and submarines for Pacific defense''
must.expand.EMPIRE..................From ABS CBN News via Phantom Report
''Pentagon planners will consider adding bombers and attack submarines as part of a growing U.S. focus on security challenges in the Asia-Pacific, a senior Defense Department official said on Wednesday.
“We will take another look” at sending more such muscle to the strategic hub of Guam in the western Pacific, now that this has been recommended by an independent review of U.S. regional military plans, Robert Scher, deputy assistant secretary of defense for plans, told lawmakers.''
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''Pentagon planners will consider adding bombers and attack submarines as part of a growing U.S. focus on security challenges in the Asia-Pacific, a senior Defense Department official said on Wednesday.
“We will take another look” at sending more such muscle to the strategic hub of Guam in the western Pacific, now that this has been recommended by an independent review of U.S. regional military plans, Robert Scher, deputy assistant secretary of defense for plans, told lawmakers.''
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Wednesday, August 1, 2012
''China objects to India’s containment strategy''
From Indian Punchline
By MK Bhadrakumar
''The Oil and Natural Gas Commission is apparently going back to the troubled waters of the South China Sea prospecting for oil. According to Chinese media reports, this is a “complete about-turn in India’s policy on the issue.” The reports didn’t say whether China had been given any assurances in this regard, howsoever informally, by the Indian side from which New Delhi is retracting. ''
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By MK Bhadrakumar
''The Oil and Natural Gas Commission is apparently going back to the troubled waters of the South China Sea prospecting for oil. According to Chinese media reports, this is a “complete about-turn in India’s policy on the issue.” The reports didn’t say whether China had been given any assurances in this regard, howsoever informally, by the Indian side from which New Delhi is retracting. ''
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Friday, July 27, 2012
''South China Sea: Why India cannot afford to be silent''
From Rediff
''As was expected there was no movement on the contentious South China Sea dispute at the ASEAN summit held in Phnom Penh a few days back. But what was striking was the fact that the looming shadow of China prevented the meeting from even issuing a joint statement for the first time in the organisation's 45-year history.
China succeeded in playing divide and rule politics, thereby ensuring that the dispute remains a bilateral matter between Beijing [ Images ] and individual rival claimants. As a consequence, the waters of the South China Sea will not be calm any time soon.''
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''As was expected there was no movement on the contentious South China Sea dispute at the ASEAN summit held in Phnom Penh a few days back. But what was striking was the fact that the looming shadow of China prevented the meeting from even issuing a joint statement for the first time in the organisation's 45-year history.
China succeeded in playing divide and rule politics, thereby ensuring that the dispute remains a bilateral matter between Beijing [ Images ] and individual rival claimants. As a consequence, the waters of the South China Sea will not be calm any time soon.''
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