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Chinese military aircraft enters S. Korea's air defense identification zone for sixth time this year....
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... in SCS, South Korea, right? LOL
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I've reported you four times during last four days for spamming, 1914 news, years old pictures, pretty much nothing happened to you, so you know what, you won, this forum will get what it deserves
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China’s top diplomat will arrive in the Philippines on Sunday for talks with its top officials
CHINA / PHILIPPINE - China’s top diplomat will arrive in the Philippines on Sunday for talks with its top officials, as analysts said the two countries could be close to a deal on joint energy exploration in the disputed South China Sea. During his two-day trip, Foreign Minister Wang Yi will meet Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte and Foreign Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jnr in Davao City, according to a media advisory issued by the Philippines’ Department of Foreign Affairs on Friday.
He will also sit down with other government officials to discuss the Southeast Asian nation’s infrastructure plan, known as “Build, Build, Build”, and several bilateral documents will be signed, the advisory said, without elaborating. Chinese analysts said the two countries were eager to reach a deal on joint energy exploration, but that problems remained with regards to their, and other nations’, competing claims in the disputed waterway.
“Joint exploration with the Philippines will set a good example in the South China Sea,” said Xu Liping, a professor at the Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies under the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
“It will strengthen China’s interests in the area and also decrease the chances of countries from outside the region interfering.”
But any such cooperation would have to comply with the Philippines’ constitution and laws, while working out how to distribute the profits from any ventures would be a challenge to overcome, he said. Xu said the visit by Wang, who is a member of the State Council, China’s cabinet, could also pave the way for President Xi Jinping to travel to Manila in the coming weeks. The Philippines’ former foreign secretary Alan Peter Cayetano said in August, while still in office, that the two countries were making plans for such a trip before the end of the year.
Cayetano said also that the start of the joint exploration project was “quite near” and contingent on China agreeing to a legal framework for the process. The two sides set up a panel to discuss the technical details of the venture in February.
Cayetano said earlier that the Philippines was open to a proposal in which it took 60 per cent of the profits and China 40 per cent. He also mentioned that Reed Bank, which sits within the Philippines’ exclusive economic zone, was a possible site for exploration. Su Hao, director of the Asia-Pacific Research Centre at China Foreign Affairs University in Beijing, said the two countries would have to formulate a plan that served not only their interests, but also those of other claimants in the region.
They would also have to be wary of a possible backlash from groups within the Philippines, including members of the political elite, that have traditionally favoured cooperation with the US, as opposed to Duterte’s current policy of building closer ties to China.
Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunei and Taiwan also hold territorial claims to the South China Sea, through which some US$3.4 trillion worth of trade passes every year.
CHINA / PHILIPPINE - China’s top diplomat will arrive in the Philippines on Sunday for talks with its top officials, as analysts said the two countries could be close to a deal on joint energy exploration in the disputed South China Sea. During his two-day trip, Foreign Minister Wang Yi will meet Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte and Foreign Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jnr in Davao City, according to a media advisory issued by the Philippines’ Department of Foreign Affairs on Friday.
He will also sit down with other government officials to discuss the Southeast Asian nation’s infrastructure plan, known as “Build, Build, Build”, and several bilateral documents will be signed, the advisory said, without elaborating. Chinese analysts said the two countries were eager to reach a deal on joint energy exploration, but that problems remained with regards to their, and other nations’, competing claims in the disputed waterway.
“Joint exploration with the Philippines will set a good example in the South China Sea,” said Xu Liping, a professor at the Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies under the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
“It will strengthen China’s interests in the area and also decrease the chances of countries from outside the region interfering.”
But any such cooperation would have to comply with the Philippines’ constitution and laws, while working out how to distribute the profits from any ventures would be a challenge to overcome, he said. Xu said the visit by Wang, who is a member of the State Council, China’s cabinet, could also pave the way for President Xi Jinping to travel to Manila in the coming weeks. The Philippines’ former foreign secretary Alan Peter Cayetano said in August, while still in office, that the two countries were making plans for such a trip before the end of the year.
Cayetano said also that the start of the joint exploration project was “quite near” and contingent on China agreeing to a legal framework for the process. The two sides set up a panel to discuss the technical details of the venture in February.
Cayetano said earlier that the Philippines was open to a proposal in which it took 60 per cent of the profits and China 40 per cent. He also mentioned that Reed Bank, which sits within the Philippines’ exclusive economic zone, was a possible site for exploration. Su Hao, director of the Asia-Pacific Research Centre at China Foreign Affairs University in Beijing, said the two countries would have to formulate a plan that served not only their interests, but also those of other claimants in the region.
They would also have to be wary of a possible backlash from groups within the Philippines, including members of the political elite, that have traditionally favoured cooperation with the US, as opposed to Duterte’s current policy of building closer ties to China.
Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunei and Taiwan also hold territorial claims to the South China Sea, through which some US$3.4 trillion worth of trade passes every year.
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now noticed the tweet
A meteorological observation station for Yongshu, Meiji, and Zhubi reefs in the officially began operating on Wed, providing fishermen and ships sailing in the area more accurate weather reports, said China Meteorological Administration
A meteorological observation station for Yongshu, Meiji, and Zhubi reefs in the officially began operating on Wed, providing fishermen and ships sailing in the area more accurate weather reports, said China Meteorological Administration
Kaplan compares the US-Caribbean-Panama Canal to the China-SCS-Strait of Malacca. But that is a fallacy, because the Panama Canal was wholly US built and owned, whereas the Strait of Malacca is a natural geographic feature which can be sailed around on the south side of Indonesia with only a minor detour in terms of sea navigation, unlike a Cape Horn detour. Kaplan lacks a grasp of geography and is simplistic. Kaplan has no significant SCS analysis.
Regarding SCS, Kaplan of Strafor compares Spain's founding and defense of Latin American nations surrounding the Caribbean to US involvement in the SCS area. History shows the US did not found the nations surrounding the SCS. While Spain had a justified reason to retain Caribbean sea lane control to it's Latin American colonies/nations, the US has none, absolutely none to any nation surrounding the SCS. Kaplan lacks an education in history of the SCS.
The US-Caribbean to China-SCS comparison is much less accurate and less useful than a US-Caribbean-Central America-Northern South America to China-SCS-Southern ECS-Ryukyus-Taiwan-SE Asia comparison.