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By: Wendell Minnick (www.defensenews.com)
China’s use of swarming tactics with fishing vessels to project and protect Beijing’s territorial claims in the South China Sea appears unstoppable, experts say.
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China has published a new map that includes territories claimed. (Photo: China Daily/ ANN)
By: Matikas Santos (inquirer.net)
China has published a new map of the entire country including the islands in the South China Sea (West Philippine Sea) in order to “better show” its territorial claim over the region. The government-run Xinhua news agency of China published photos of the map made by Hunan Map Publishing House and said in the caption “Islands in South China Sea share the same scale with mainland and are better shown than traditional maps.” 
Vietnam is enhancing its maritime security capabilities including its acquisition of Damen 9014 OPV. (Photo: Damen)
By: Ridzwan Rahmat, James Hardy and Alex Pape
Vietnam's highest legislative body, the National Assembly, has endorsed a VND16 trillion (USD747 million) plan to boost the country's maritime surveillance and defence capabilities. The decision comes as Hanoi is engaged in a territorial standoff with China in the South China Sea. 
Saab 2000 MPA is the latest maritime patrol aircraft offering from Saab. (Photo: Saab)
By: Kyunghee Park (www.bloomberg.com)
Boeing Co. (BA), the second-biggest defense contractor in the U.S., and Saab AB (SAABB)expect demand for maritime and aerial surveillance systems to grow in Asia as territorial disputes intensify. Demand for maritime patrol craft and affiliated equipment in the Asia-Pacific region is expected to grow steadily for the foreseeable future, Chris Chadwick, head of Boeing’s defense business, said yesterday in Singapore. Boeing and Stockholm, Sweden-based Saab both manufacture aircraft used for maritime patrol and surveillance. By: Wendell Minnick (www.defensenews.com)
Thucydides, the Greek historian who penned the story of the Peloponnesian War, wrote that “the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.” The quote might be an appropriate description of what Vietnam is suffering after the placement of a Chinese mega oil rig off its coast this month. 
A photo released by the Philippines' Department of Foreign Affairs shows the alleged reclamation by China on what is internationally recognized as the Johnson South Reef in the South China Sea, otherwise known as the Mabini Reef by the Philippines and Chigua Reef by China. The Philippines warned on May 14 that China may be building an airstrip on the reef, boosting the superpower's claim to most of the strategic Asian waters. (Department Of Foreign Affairs / AFP)
By: Agence France Presse (www.afp.com)
The Philippines released photographs Thursday to back its claim that China was reclaiming land on a disputed reef in the South China Sea in an apparent effort to build an airstrip. 
US has discovered gaps in China's East China Sea air identification zone most probably by employing RC-135 Rivet Joint intelligence gathering aircraft. (Photo: US Air Force)
By: Wendell Minnick (www.defensenews.com)
Only days after China declared an air defense identification zone on Nov. 23 over the East China Sea, the US Air Force flew two B-52 bombers over the area in what appeared to be a challenge to China’s claim. A former US Air Force official is suggesting this was a message of deterrence to Beijing that the US is aware of China’s weak links along its air defense network. By: Agence France Presse (www.afp.com)
The Philippines and the United States announced they would sign an agreement on Monday to allow a greater US military presence on Filipino soil for the next decade. 
TNI-AU is planning to station its advanced fighters in Riau Islands (Photo: Royal Australian Air Force)
By: Ridzwan Rahmat (www.janes.com)
The Indonesian Air Force (Tentera Nasional Indonesia - Angkatan Udara, TNI-AU) is planning to upgrade its airbase at Ranai on Riau Island so it can be used by Sukhoi Su-27 and Su-30 fighter aircraft, the base's commander said on 27 March.  AEGIS equipped US Navy cruisers and destroyers are one of the most capable ships in the world. (Photo: US Navy) By: Stephen Ellis (www.thediplomat.com)
Often overlooked in the debates about the possibility of a future struggle between the United States and China in East Asia is the fact that the current U.S. military presence in the region actually serves and supports a number of critical Chinese strategic interests. Beijing actually benefits in a number of ways from U.S. power, suggesting that the contention that China is ultimately seeking to push the United States militarily out of the region may not be as clear cut as is often assumed and asserted. By: Associated Press (www.ap.org)
China's military is prepared to respond to all threats to the country's sovereignty, a government spokeswoman said yesterday, ahead of the expected announcement of another big bump in defense spending. By: Carl Thayer (www.thediplomat.com)
For the past two years China has dispatched a flotilla of People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) warships to the farthest reaches of the South China Sea to assert Beijing’s claim to “indisputable sovereignty” over the waters and features lying within its nine-dashed line. Beijing’s ambitious claim covers an estimated eighty percent of the South China Sea. On each occasion PLAN warships sailed to James Shoal, or Beting Serupai in Malay, eighty kilometers off the coast of East Malaysia. According to Bill Hayton, who is completing a book on the South China Sea, China’s claim is based on a double historical error. 
Chinese sailors stand at attention as the Chinese frigate Yancheng comes in to dock at Limassol port in Cyprus in this January 4, 2014 file photo. REUTERS/Andreas Manolis/Files
By Stuart Grudgings (http://uk.reuters.com)
(Reuters) - The submerged reef would be easy to miss, under turquoise seas about 80 km (50 miles) off Malaysia's Borneo island state of Sarawak. But two Chinese naval exercises in less than a year around the James Shoal have shocked Malaysia and led to a significant shift in its approach to China's claims to the disputed South China Sea, senior diplomats told Reuters. The reef lies outside Malaysia's territorial waters but inside its 200 nautical mile exclusive economic zone. By: David Wroe (www.smh.com.au)
Australia scrambled an air force surveillance plane earlier this month to monitor an unannounced Chinese military exercise that took the emerging superpower's ships closer to Australian territory than ever before. In what observers say is a significant strategic development, China carried out combat simulations at the beginning of the month between Christmas Island and Indonesia in an apparent flexing of its growing naval muscle. 
A Chinese-built J-10 fighter jet is displayed Nov. 28 outside the Beijing offices of the Aviation Industry Corp. of China. Asia's neighbors have raised concerns about China's growing military strength. (MARK RALSTON/AFP/Getty Images)
By WENDELL MINNICK (http://www.defensenews.com)
SINGAPORE — The Asia Pacific Security Conference debated a wide range of policy and modernization issues that are causing consternation and confusion in the region. The conference, held in conjunction with the Singapore Airshow, looked at the dynamics and role that air power plays in Asian security. Territorial disputes in the South China Sea and East China Sea have resurrected recently with a vengeance, said Barry Desker, dean of the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, here. China’s rising military is a force to be “reckoned with,” he said. A mix of complex factors that include the US Air Sea Battle concept and Asia strategic rebalance, together with China’s anti-access/area-denial strategy, further complicates this. |
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