Germany ready to help reduce tensions in disputed South China Sea
Germany’s top diplomat has said that China’s actions in the South China Sea violate the rights of Asian coastal states like the Philippines and threaten freedom of navigation.
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Germany’s top diplomat has said that China’s actions in the South China Sea violate the rights of Asian coastal states like the Philippines and threaten freedom of navigation.
China and Russia’s naval forces kicked off a joint military exercise only days after NATO allies called Beijing a “decisive enabler” of the war in Ukraine.
In the night intercept, the Shenyang J-11 twin-engine fighter closed on the U.S. Air Force plane at an “uncontrolled excessive speed, flying below, in front of, and within 10 feet of the B-52, putting both aircraft in danger of a collision,” the US Indo-Pacific Command said in a statement released late Thursday.
A Chinese coast guard ship and an accompanying vessel rammed a Philippine coast guard ship and a military-run supply boat Sunday off a contested shoal, Philippine officials said, in an encounter that heightened fears of an armed conflict in the disputed South China Sea.
Australian and Filipino troops have been holding joint exercises in the South China Sea with no sign of agreement on the disputed waters.
Once again conflict has almost erupted in the South China Sea.
Filipino forces would dismantle any floating barrier that China’s coast guard may install in the disputed South China Sea, a Philippine admiral said Wednesday after Manila infuriated China by removing one such obstruction in a contested shoal.
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Three Filipino fishermen died in the disputed South China Sea after their boat was accidentally hit by a passing commercial vessel, the Philippine coast guard said Wednesday.