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How China Plotted to Monopolize the Entire East Sea

Several countries lay overlapping claims to the energy-rich East and South China Seas. China claims the largest portion of the disputed territory, an area defined by the nine-dotted demarcation suggesting that Beijing lays claim to most of the South China Sea. Other major claimants in the area include the Philippines, Malaysia, Japan and Bruinei. It […]

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China Uninvited in Vietnam-Philippines Beach Party

To demonstrate their budding alliance in denouncing China’s maritime moves, the Philippine and Vietnamese navies will soon throw a beer and volleyball party in early June on Southwest Cay, and China isn’t among those invited. The get-together will symbolize how once-suspicious neighbors are now working together amid China’s assertiveness in the contested territories, a move […]

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China Attacks Vietnamese Fishing Vessel, Tensions Arise

Tensions between neighbors China and Vietnam quickly escalated during the previous weeks over claims on the disputed waters off Vietnam’s coast. China’s illegal installation of an oil rig within Hoang Sa Islands worsened diplomatic and economic relationship between the two countries to its worst point in decades. The territories are claimed by both China and […]