... uth China Sea and elsewhere that antagonize China's neighbors. With, for example, China bullying the Philippines over possession of disputed islands in the South China Sea, the Confucius Institute tha ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-13
... uth China Sea and the Western Pacific Ocean. But these are not stopping people from spreading the most outrageous conspiracy theories. The present warning regime has been in existence since 1973 whe ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-10
China’s claims to disputed territory in the South China Sea are making life complicated for ethnic Chinese businessmen in countries like the Philippines that have competing claims, Bloomberg reported. ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-10
... f the the SeaSparrow missile and sharing the cost. The missile, an advanced ship-borne weapon designed to destroy anti-ship sea-skimming missiles and attack aircraft, is made by US weapons firms Rayth ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-10
... uth China Sea where Manila has long explored for oil and gas. One source, a sailor, said he was on a fishing boat being used by the navy that discovered the rubber buoys and the floating steel marker ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-07
China has almost finished building a 3,000-meter-long airstrip on one of its artificial islands in the South China Sea's disputed Spratly archipelago, Reuters reported, citing new satellite photograph ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-02
... w-defunct search and rescue mission Mare Nostrum, a bigger disaster in April killed up to 800 migrants and stunned the European Union into expanding joint rescue operations. Bensalem's sentence was re ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-02
... floating sea ice as platforms for hunting ringed seals, for mating and to travel vast distances quickly and without expending crucial energy reserves on long-distance swimming, according to the US Fi ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-02
... ls to overseas candidates, especially in filling junior positions. "Many candidates from Hong Kong believe they deserve better salary than locals. And yet, in the eyes of employers, salary is based on ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-27
Japan's military will consider joining US forces in regular patrols in the South China Sea, as concerns grow about Beijing's island-building activities in disputed waters, a top Japanese uniformed off ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-26
China will add its assets and activities in space, the deep sea and polar regions to its pending national security law, Reuters reported, citing state media. President Xi Jinping, who heads a newly es ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-25
... uth China Sea. "Responsible countries adhere to international law and work together to keep international sea-lanes open for unimpaired commerce, Biden said, according to the Wall Street Journal. Chin ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-24
... land and sea routes. Strategically, Beijing sees the AIIB (and the NDB) as a multilateral tool to support its policy banks in financing overseas investment and encouraging Chinese companies to "go ou ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-22
China is about to complete some of the land reclamation work on Nansha Islands, also known as Spratly Islands, in the South China Sea, the nation's foreign ministry said on Tuesday. "China will comple ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-17
... et) above sea level, is located on the collision belt between the Indian and the Eurasian Plates, where the crustal movements are active. Geographical changes in the area have great influence on the c ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-16
... uth China Sea pose a threat not just to the security of Vietnam, the Philippines and other neighboring countries but also to their mineral and fishing rights. The international community has a shared ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-12
US Defense Secretary Ash Carter repeated Washington's call for a halt to land reclamation in the South China Sea even as he said the Pentagon remains committed to expanding military contacts with Chin ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-12
The United States must give up "microphone diplomacy" over issues related to the South China Sea and cyber security and should instead seek to resolve differences through mutual respect and real dialo ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-11
Territorial disputes in the South China Sea first caught the public's attention in 1974 during the military engagement between China and South Vietnam, as it was then known, over the control of the Pa ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-09
... uth China Sea disputes, in contrast to that of the Philippines and Vietnam, which have both railed against perceived Chinese expansionism in disputed areas. The three Southeast Asian countries claim p ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-09