Malaysia openly opposes China Malaysia-China relations are becoming tense after the Chinese aircraft illegally violated Malaysia’s airspace. At the end of May, Malaysia said 16 Chinese aircraft were operating illegally just 60 nautical miles from the Luconia Shoals in the…
The naval commanders of Vietnam and China agreed to set up a hotline in a move seen as an attempt to manage the risk of conflict over the two countries’ claims in the South China Sea. The admirals of the…
China celebrates its 70th anniversary with the biggest ever military parade to show off its newest missiles China’s state-controlled media has appeared a call for the country to increase its submarine-launched nuclear-tipped missiles as a strategic deterrent amid growing US…
Based on China Public opinion is stirred by the fact that Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, during the 26th Future of Asia conference, which took place online on May 20, strongly defended the “close” relationship between Phompenh and Beijing. He…
China is proposing to hold a foreign ministerial meeting with the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) next month – a summit that will help expand and strengthen China’s recent “diplomatic attack” in Southeast Asia. This year marks the…
Recently, the US military confirmed that China has completed the construction of a pier more than 330 meters long at its only foreign naval base in Djibouti on the shores of the Bab el-Mandeb Strait in East Africa. The modernization…
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has opened a new front in its long and ambitious battle to shape global public opinion: the West’s social media. Liu Xiaoming, a former Chinese ambassador to the UK, is now one of the CCP’s…
At a regular press conference on May 13, Vietnamese Foreign Ministry’s Spokeswoman Le Thi Thu Hang raised Hanoi’s position against China’s dispatch of nearly 300 ships to Whitsun Reef which is a part of the Truong Sa (Spratlys) where Vietnam…
Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said on May 12 that Japan “strongly opposes” China’s growing assertiveness at sea in a phone call with Vietnamese President Nguyen Xuan Phuc. Tokyo is deeply concerned about “unilateral efforts to change the status quo in…
Vietnam’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has denied the Chinese side’s accusations that the Vietnamese maritime militia threatened its security and defense forces, affirming Vietnam’s peaceful defense policy. At the ministry’s regular press conference on the afternoon of April 29, Deputy…
