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Pakistan FM to Visit China on Heels of Conflict With India Over Kashmir

Pakistan's Foreign Minister will make a three-day official visit to China, his office announced on Sunday, just over a week after Islamabad reached a ceasefire with India to end their most serious conflict in decades. Ishaq Dar, who also holds the ...

Vietnam Protests China, Philippines Claims on South China Sea Reef

Vietnam on Saturday protested claims by China and the Philippines over a disputed reef in the South China Sea, which it considers its own territory. Manila and Beijing traded barbs last week over Sandy Cay, a group of small sandbanks in ...

China Seizes Disputed Reef Near Key Philippine Military Outpost: Report

The Chinese coast guard has seized control of a disputed reef near a major Philippine military outpost in the South China Sea, according to Beijing's state media, adding to longstanding territorial tensions with Manila. Beijing claims sovereignty over almost all of ...

China Seizes Disputed Reef Near Key Philippine Military Outpost: Report

The Chinese coast guard has seized control of a disputed reef near a major Philippine military outpost in the South China Sea, according to Beijing's state media, adding to longstanding territorial tensions with Manila. Beijing claims sovereignty over almost all of ...

China Seizes Disputed Reef Near Key Philippine Military Outpost: Report

The Chinese coast guard has seized control of a disputed reef near a major Philippine military outpost in the South China Sea, according to Beijing's state media, adding to longstanding territorial tensions with Manila. Beijing claims sovereignty over almost all of ...

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The Pain of Un-Polarity

“THE G2 WILL BE CONVENING SHORTLY!”
This post by U.S. President Donald Trump in the run-up to his meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping last week may end up leaving a more lasting mark than the actual summit he attended.

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China–India Pact a Borderline Solution

After four years of a warlike atmosphere on the disputed China–India border, Beijing and New Delhi reached an agreement to continue patrolling the border as they had been doing until 2020. Though the pact serves the strategic, economic and diplomatic interests of both sides, it only has ...

Philippines Defines Its Sea Routes to Defend Interests

Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos signed laws on Friday defining the country's sea waters and imposing fixed lanes for foreign ships, sparking a sharp riposte by China that summoned Manila's envoy. The Maritime Zones Act marks out waters that fall within Manila's ...

Indonesia Says Chinese Coast Guard Ship Driven From Disputed Waters

Indonesia said Thursday it drove out a Chinese coast guard vessel from contested waters in the South China Sea twice in recent days, the latest move by a Southeast Asian nation against Beijing's actions in the strategic waterway. Chinese vessels have ...

Blinken at ASEAN Meet Condemns China’s ‘Increasingly Dangerous’ Sea Moves

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken condemned Beijing's "increasingly dangerous" actions in the South China Sea and voiced support for freedom of navigation as he met leaders of the ASEAN bloc on Friday. "We remain concerned about China's increasingly dangerous and ...

Vietnam Condemns China’s ‘Brutal Behavior’ in Fisher Attack

Vietnam's foreign ministry condemned on Wednesday China's "brutal behavior" during a violent attack on Vietnamese fishers in the disputed South China Sea. The ten fishermen were reportedly beaten with iron bars and robbed of thousands of dollars worth of fish and ...

Philippines Says ‘We Have Not Lost’ South China Sea Reef After Pullout

The Philippines insisted on Monday that it had not given up a disputed South China Sea reef, two days after it pulled out a ship stationed there following a months-long standoff with rival claimant China. "We have not lost anything," Philippine ...

Philippines’ Marcos Condemns China’s ‘Illegal and Reckless’ Actions Over Disputed Reef

Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos on Sunday condemned what he called "illegal and reckless" actions by China's air force last week against a Filipino military plane patrolling over a disputed South China Sea reef. Two Chinese Air Force aircraft undertook a "dangerous ...
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