South China Sea Disputes
How China has ramped up aggression in South China Sea amid the coronavirus pandemic
As China was scrambling to contain the coronavirus outbreak that ravaged parts of the country before crossing international boundaries, it was asserting its presence in the South China Sea through a…
South China Sea Disputes
Vietnam denounces China's district formations on Vietnamese islands
Vietnam has strongly protested China’s flouting of international laws and violation of Vietnam’s sovereignty in forming districts on East Sea archipelagos. Satellite image of Woody Island, part of…
East Vietnam Sea
Taiwan boat returning after Vietnam interception
TAIPEI, Taiwan -- The Pingtung County-registered Lung Wang Li No. 97 (龍旺利97號) fishing boat was returning to Taiwan last night after being intercepted by Vietnamese vessels in the East Vietnam Sea (th…
US-Asean
US backs PH, ASEAN on territorial dispute
The United States has expressed its support for the collective efforts of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to move forward and craft a legally binding Code of Conduct (COC) with Chi…
Vietnam's Sovereignty
US diplomat visits Hoang Sa Islands administration office
The US Consul General in Ho Chi Minh City has visited the office of the Hoang Sa (Paracel) Archipelago administration and held discussions with local government officials. US General Consul Le Thanh …
East Vietnam Sea
How will China React to Gazprom Prospecting in Vietnamese Waters?
It is hardly a secret that Beijing’s claims to nearly all of the South China Sea’s waters have elicited concern from Southeast Asian nations. Now Russia’s state-owned natural gas giant Gazprom is upp…
South China Sea
China establishes surveillance system covering 4,406 islands, including disputed Spratlys
BEIJING - China has established a national island surveillance and monitoring system and completed airborne remote-sensing surveillance of what it claims to be its 4,406 islands, according to the Min…
War Drill
China's South Sea Fleet conducts live-ammunition fire drill
Warships of the South Sea Fleet of the Navy of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) conducted a live-ammunition fire drill in a certain sea area under the conditions of informationization i…
South China Sea
USS John C. Stennis CSG Operates in South China Sea
The Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74) conducted flight operations April 5 in conjunction with maritime security patrols while steaming across the South China Sea. Stennis ro…
South China Sea
South China sea nations vary in approaches to press claims
Vietnam's permanent fleet in the Spratlys STATE DEPARTMENT — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry makes his first trip to Asia next week, where talks in Beijing are expected to focus on an increasi…
Headlines
US deployment of 12 fighter jets to the Philippines the largest ever
Washington is this week deploying a dozen F/A-18 fighters to the Philippines, the first time it has sent so many of the aircraft there, to take part in annual military drills with a close security al…
East Vietnam Sea
Vietnam to Push Ahead With Offshore Exploration
HANOI—State-owned Vietnam Oil & Gas Group, or PetroVietnam, plans to keep buying foreign oil-and-gas assets and hopes to be producing close to 100,000 barrels a day of oil overseas by 2020, four …
Headlines
US backs Philippines bid for arbitration on sea row
MANILA, Philippines — The United States has thrown its full support behind the Philippines’ bid to settle disputes with China in the West Philippine Sea (South China Sea) through arbitration as the c…
East Vietnam Sea
China's Assertiveness Threatens Peace In South China Sea
( Investors ) Territorial disputes are threatening to spark deadly clashes that could have worldwide repercussions between China and some or all of its neighbors in the South China Sea — Vietnam, the…
Headlines
Chinese naval taskforce back to South China Sea
(Peopledaily) The four warships of the combat-readiness patrol and high-sea training taskforce under the South China Sea Fleet of the Navy of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) sailed thr…
East Vietnam Sea
Beijing’s new kingpins taking aggressive maritime stance
(Philstar) China has intensified naval and coastal drills that analysts say typify Beijing’s new aggressive leaders. China again calls the moves part of its “peaceful rise,” but actually are expansio…
Vietnam-China
Vietnam marine police to step up East Sea protection for fishermen
The Vietnam Marine Police Department has said it would beef up protection for Vietnamese fishermen fishing in the nation’s territorial waters with frequent patrols of the East Sea including areas off…
Vietnam-China
Chinese action against Vietnamese fisherman was 'legitimate'
Sailor Pham sits in his damaged fishing boat, which was allegedly attacked by Chinese boats in the disputed South China Sea The action taken by Chinese authorities regarding a Vietnamese boat "…
Military data
China holds landing exercises in East Vietnam Sea
BEIJING (AP) — China's increasingly powerful navy paid a symbolic visit to the country's southernmost territorial claim deep in the East Vietnam Sea (south China sea) this week as part of mil…
East Vietnam Sea
China's patrol boats fire burning Vietnamese fishing vessel
China's patrol boats fired burning a Vietnamese fishing vessel in Hoang Sa (Paracel) Islands, Vietnamese official media Xaluan reported on March 24. The fishing vessel QNg 96382 TS fired buri…
