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The New Silk Roads And The Rise Of The ‘Chinese Dream’
By Pepe Escobar Beijing is advancing a Chinese-led globalization that will challenge U.S. hegemony both regionally and globally. Earlier last week, the first Chinese commercial train, with 32 containers, arrived in Tehran after a less than 14-day journey from the massive warehouse of Yiwu in Zhejiang, eastern China, crossing Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan. This is a 10,400 … Continue reading
South China Sea Tensions Set To Rise As China Adapts New ‘Deep Sea Exploration Law’
The stage is set for further tensions in the South China Sea as Beijing announced on Friday that it has adopted its first law on deep sea exploration, in the nation’s latest move to assert itself as a maritime power. On Friday, China’s top legislature passed the country’s first law on deep seafloor resource exploration to “protect the maritime environment” and “ensure … Continue reading
China Deploys Fighter Jets To Disputed Island In South China Sea, Fox News Says
As tensions in the South China Sea continue to boil to all-time highs, China has deployed fighter jets to one of the disputed islands in the South China Sea, Fox News reports, citing two U.S. officials. Fox News says the fighter jets have been deployed to the same island where China deployed two batteries of eight HQ-9 surface-to-air … Continue reading
A Glimpse Into China’s Military Presence In The South China Sea
By Stratfor Global Intelligence Widely published satellite imagery from Feb. 14 shows the presence of new Chinese air defense systems on Woody Island in the South China Sea, highlighting continuing maritime frictions in the area. But new imagery obtained by Stratfor provides a higher-resolution view of the deployment and activities taking place across the island. Specialists at … Continue reading
Drama And Maneuver In The South China Sea: The U.S.-China Standoff
By Peter Lee On October 27, 2015 China hawks got what they had long demanded: a US Navy Freedom of Navigation operation (aka FONOP) within 12 nautical miles of Subi Reef, one of China’s manmade islands in the South China Sea. But it turns out that wasn’t enough! China hawk joy was transformed into widely-advertised disappointment … Continue reading
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