It’s sabotage, when it happens to Russia, but terrorism almost anywhere else! It’s spying, when it’s China, but it’s reconnaissance (or ISTAR) when the USG (US Government) does it! It’s freedom of navigation when the USG does it (despite not ratifying UNCLOS) but if China did it, it would be aggression! As I said before, the majority of those who want to stop arming Ukraine just want war with China!
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An Incomplete Report on US Military Activities in the South China Sea in 2022
An Incomplete Report on US Military Activities in the South China Sea in 2022
In 2022, alongside the context of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, the US military placed great emphasis on military deterrence against China in the South China Sea, maintaining high-intensity activities including close-in reconnaissance operations, Taiwan Strait transits, forward presence operations, strategic deterrence, freedom of navigation operations (FONOPs), military exercises and drills, and battlefield preparation.
An Incomplete Report on US Military Activities in the South China Sea in 2022 via SCSPI
Philippines: Our Foreign Policy on China Is Clear, But Is It to The United States?
The chief architect of Philippine foreign policy is the President.
It appears that the sitting President has been somewhat slow in defining it but certainly he knows that buck of responsibility stops with him.
Our Foreign Policy on China Is Clear, But Is It to The United States?
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US-China Tensions Over Taiwan Update (Aug 29, 2022) – US Warships in Taiwan Strait
After a series of provocative meetings between US officials and Taiwan’s administration in violation of US bilateral agreements with Beijing over the One China policy, the US has now transited warships through the Taiwan Strait.
Throughout this series of provocations China has steadily expanded military operations around Taiwan, tightening control over the air and water around the island territory.
The US appears unable to recognize the limits of its power and influence and prepared fully to trigger another catastrophic conflict just as it has with Russia over Ukraine.
US-China Tensions Over Taiwan Update (Aug 29, 2022) – US Warships in Taiwan Strait (Odysee) via The New Atlas
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Why is Australia risking conflict with China?
Like all nations, Australia has a right to a military presence in the South China Sea. But how and why it exercises that right have become key policy questions.
Why is Australia risking conflict with China?
China cuts ties with US on critical issues
Beijing has severed communication with Washington in several areas in retaliation for Nancy Pelosi’s trip to Taiwan
China cuts ties with US on critical issues
H/T: THE NEW DARK AGE
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Beijing Cancels U.S.-China Military Bilateral Efforts
China’s cancelation of the three military-to-military cooperation could have national security consequences given it reduces the level of engagement between the United States and China. To that end, the China-U.S. Defense Policy Coordination Talks (DPCT) have been in place since early 2005, designed to provide senior level dialogue in support of the China-U.S. Military Maritime Consultative Agreement (MMCA). The MMCA, in place since 1998, is meant to reduce the likelihood of an inadvertent incident at sea.
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With the cancelation of the DPCT and MMCA, the likelihood of an incident similar to that which took place in April 2001, when a U.S. EP-3E Aries II aircraft collided with a Chinese aircraft. The EP-3 was able to make an emergency landing on China’s Hainan Island. The 24 crew members were taken into custody and eventually released some 10 days later. It would not be until July 2001 when the dismantled EP3 was flown out of China.
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The ability for Defense Secretary Austin to communicate directly with the PRC Minister of National Defense, General Wei Fenghe remains in place. Indeed, in June 2022, Austin and Wei held one-on-one discussions in Singapore where they discussed improving crisis management. Those discussions have clearly been overtaken by events of the day. In addition, “The Secretary reaffirmed the importance of peace and stability across the Strait, opposition to unilateral changes to the status quo, and called on the PRC to refrain from further destabilizing actions toward Taiwan,” according to the Department of Defense readout in the meeting.
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A Better U.S. Strategy For East Asia
A Better U.S. Strategy For East Asia
When considering Chinese ambitions, the authors correctly note that “Beijing has not behaved as a wholesale revisionist power seeking to upend existing institutions.” Like other major powers, China seeks to use existing international institutions to its advantage, but it is not interested in trying to bring the current institutional order crashing down. Along the same lines, China has not been trying to export its political system. While Mike Pompeo has tried to cast China in the role of a revolutionary adversary bent on spreading its ideology abroad, the truth is that the Chinese government prefers to advance its interests and increase its influence in much the same way that other great powers have done for centuries.
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