A look at some recent key developments in the South China Sea, where China is pitted against smaller neighbors in territorial disputes over islands, coral reefs and lagoons in waters rich in fish and potential gas and oil reserves: ___ EDITOR’S NOTE: This is a weekly look at the latest key developments in the South […]
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi has described the relationship between China and Iran as very old. “Iran has long-standing ties with us,” Wang said in an interview with Al Jazeera ahead of the seventh ministerial conference of the China-Arab States Cooperation Forum in Doha. The chief Chinese diplomat also said the landmark nuclear deal between […]
Author: Sourabh Gupta, Institute for China–America Studies On 10–13 April, US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter paid his third visit in just 30 months to India — the seventh by a US Defense Secretary since 2008. The frequency of high-level visits reflects the prominence accorded to New Delhi within the Pentagon’s emerging strategy towards the Indo-Asia-Pacific […]
Author: Sourabh Gupta, Institute for China–America Studies On 10–13 April, US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter paid his third visit in just 30 months to India — the seventh by a US Defense Secretary since 2008. The frequency of high-level visits reflects the prominence accorded to New Delhi within the Pentagon’s emerging strategy towards the Indo-Asia-Pacific […]
Author: Sourabh Gupta, Institute for China–America Studies On 10–13 April, US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter paid his third visit in just 30 months to India — the seventh by a US Defense Secretary since 2008. The frequency of high-level visits reflects the prominence accorded to New Delhi within the Pentagon’s emerging strategy towards the Indo-Asia-Pacific […]
U.S. Sailors, soldiers, and mariners from across the Republic of Korea gathered to honor the service and sacrifice of U.S. Merchant Mariners during a National Maritime Day ceremony in Busan, May 20. Maritime Day is an annual ceremony that honors Merchant Mariners that have lost their lives at sea. This ceremony marks the 83rd commemoration […]
Q: Niger issued a press statement supporting China’s position on the South China Sea issue. Please confirm. A: The Nigerien Foreign Ministry issued a press statement on the South China Sea issue on May 19, expressing Niger’s call for international judicial and arbitral bodies to respect all countries’ right of seeking dispute settlement by means […]
Q: Niger issued a press statement supporting China’s position on the South China Sea issue. Please confirm. A: The Nigerien Foreign Ministry issued a press statement on the South China Sea issue on May 19, expressing Niger’s call for international judicial and arbitral bodies to respect all countries’ right of seeking dispute settlement by means […]
Q: Niger issued a press statement supporting China’s position on the South China Sea issue. Please confirm. A: The Nigerien Foreign Ministry issued a press statement on the South China Sea issue on May 19, expressing Niger’s call for international judicial and arbitral bodies to respect all countries’ right of seeking dispute settlement by means […]
Unmanned Systems The Navy has seen the future and it’s filled with drones By Mark Pomerleau May 20, 2016 U.S. Naval forces are going all in on unmanned technologies. As evidence, look no further than two recent appointments: retired Marine Gen. Frank Kelley as Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Unmanned Systems and Rear […]