While territorial disputes have long played a role in Chinese economic and foreign policy, China’s growing resources have allowed it to adopt more ambitious and expansive tactics in asserting its territorial claims. However, as...
The Chinese government spoke out this week against increasing Israeli military action in the southern Gazan city of Rafah. Its criticism, after a period of relative silence on the issue, has brought renewed attention to China’s...
On Saturday, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi will wrap up his ten-day tour of eight Pacific Island Countries (PICs). Having initially aimed for an ambitious multilateral pact on security and development, he has reluctantly...
The Environmental Justice Foundation, an environmental NGO based in London, released a new report, titled “The Ever-Widening Net: Mapping the Scale, Nature and Corporate Structures of Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing...
On Thursday, a draft document outlining a security cooperation agreement between China and the Solomon Islands was leaked online. The proposed agreement opens the possibility of a greater Chinese military presence on the...
Jeremy Page at The Wall Street Journal reports that China sent a surveillance vessel to waters off...
Andrea Chen at South China Morning Post reports that China is leading an international team of...
China reacted strongly on Friday to a Japanese parliamentary resolution condemning its new air...
With international tensions mounting over China’s newly declared Air Defense Identification...
A little more than a year after China’s first aircraft carrier joined the PLA’s naval...
The New York Times’s Jane Perlez reports that China has sent four ships to patrol disputed islands in the East China Sea in the past week in addition to flying an early-warning aircraft between Okinawa and Miyako, all part...
China’s State Council has submitted widely-anticipated plans for the restructuring of several government agencies to the National People’s Congress. The seventh such initiative in the past 30 years, the new plan aims...
While both sides may be moving to ease tensions in the disputed Diaoyu Islands, Reuters reports that the Chinese navy continues to send ships to the area in an attempt to overwhelm the inferior Japanese forces tasked with...
China Daily reports on CCP general secretary Xi Jinping’s recent meeting with a Japanese envoy in Beijing, in which standing tensions over the Diaoyu Islands were indirectly addressed: Xi Jinping on Friday said China and...
A Japanese envoy visited Beijing on Tuesday to discuss simmering tensions between the two sides, according to the Associated Press. From the South China Morning Post: Natsuo Yamaguchi made no comments upon his arrival but told...
U.S. secretary of state Hillary Clinton stood with Japan’s Foreign Minister on Friday and said that America opposed “any unilateral actions that would seek to undermine Japanese administration” of the Diaoyu...
A Foreign Ministry spokesman announced on Wednesday that China would carry out a geographical survey of the Diaoyu Islands in the East China Sea, according to Xinhua News. From AFP (via the South China Morning Post): The mapping...
Japan sent fighter jets to the disputed Diaoyu Islands on Thursday after it detected several Chinese military planes in the area, according to Japanese media. From AFP (via the South China Morning Post): The Chinese planes were...
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