CHINA SEA GRAB RAISES ALARM A map printed in six million new passports for its citizens clearly indicate Beijing’s ambition to expand territorial waters across almost the whole South China Sea. A dashed line on the revised map declares the zones right up to the littorals of other states are China’s. If it were put into effect, it would see China swallow up the Spratly Islands, ownership of which is already ...
Read moreUK TO OPERATE TWO CARRIERS The British government has staged a volte-face two years after declaring it would only ever operate one of the two new Queen Elizabeth Class ...
Read moreUSA LIFTS BAN ON KIWI SHIPS Washington has lifted a ban on New Zealand naval vessels visiting US naval and coast guard bases around the world. The ban was ...
Read moreASIA-PAC MARINES ARE ‘TIP OF SPEAR The US Marines Corps is to commit 22,000 troops west of the International Date Line (IDL), with a significant proportion of them deployed aboard ...
Read moreSOUTH CHINA SEA SIMMERS President Benigno Aquino of the Philippines last month (July) said his country would not back down in its maritime dispute with Beijing, pledging to obtain ...
Read moreELLOW SEA RIPOSTE STAGED BY ALLIED TRIO It was seen as a response to the new Sino-Russian axis, which had been expressed earlier this year via joint naval exercises ...
Read moreSIXTY PER CENT OF USN TO BE BASED IN ASIA-PAC As the swing in focus away from the old Cold War era European centre of gravity gathers pace, US ...
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