South China Sea

Pilots from China and Philippines trade rhetoric over the Spartlys in the South China Sea amid mounting tensions around the contested area.

The Philippines last week accused the vessels, including a navy ship, of “slowly loitering”. It stays aboard a rusty former US navy ship that country ran aground on a reef there to preserve Manila’s territorial claim. You are transiting inside Philippine territorial sea,” the Philippine pilot radios back. “Calling China coast guard vessel. The Philippines, meanwhile, occupies nine features there. As a Philippine coast guard aircraft flew over the disputed Spratly islands in the South China Sea, a message came in over the radio telling it to immediately leave “Chinese territory”.

(UPDATE) AS a Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) plane carrying journalists flew over the Spratly Islands in the hotly disputed South China Sea, a Chinese voice ...

"You have entered [the water around] a Chinese reef and constituted a security threat. To avoid misunderstanding, leave immediately," the Chinese radio operator said, in one of seven messages issued in Chinese and English as the PCG plane flew over a Philippine-occupied island and shoal. (UPDATE) AS a Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) plane carrying journalists flew over the Spratly Islands in the hotly disputed South China Sea, a Chinese voice issued a stern command over the radio: "Leave immediately."

Chinese vessels continue to loiter in the West Philippine Sea but are now fewer in number, according to the Philippine Coast Guard which has recently ...

These are most suitable to long-duration patrol operations in the WPS, he said. “You have entered (the water around) a Chinese reef and constituted a security threat. They’ll be back,” said Powell, who now leads Project Myoushu (South China Sea) at the Gordian Knot Center for National Security Innovation at Stanford University. The answer is most are probably still in the area … Marcos has insisted that he will not let China trample on the country’s maritime rights—in contrast to his predecessor Rodrigo Duterte who was reluctant to criticize Beijing. Raymond Powell in a series of tweets on Friday. READ:

An aerial view taken on March 9, 2023 shows vessels identified by the Philippine Coast Guard as Chinese maritime militia vessels near Thitu Island in the South ...

"[EDCA] is a key pillar of the Philippine-US alliance, which supports combined training, exercises, and interoperability between our forces. Manalo noted that such reclamations pose "long-term economic costs" to important fishing ecosystems and livelihood of coastal communities in the Philippines. The gestures raised alarm over Chinese vessels encroaching on Philippine waters and instances of harassment of Filipinos in the West Philippine Sea.

China incrementally built up military outposts, with little pushback from the U.S., and has emerged as a power in the strategic waters through which ...

military accused a Chinese fighter pilot of another unsafe action over the waterway—flying within 20 feet of the nose of a U.S. The source was a Chinese coast guard ship, which Philippine authorities said approached dangerously close. A few weeks earlier, the U.S.

First, the ship sped near the Philippine patrol vessel Malapascua close to the Second Thomas Shoal, a submerged reef in the hotly contested South China Sea.

The U.S. military moves in the Pacific that “gets a lot longer and a lot sexier” at the classified level. “In line with the Marine Corps concept of stand-in forces, the Marines are supposed to be able to conduct sea-denial [missions] and be able to bottle up Chinese forces to ensure they don’t go outside the first island chain.” and Japan also agreed to the shared use of U.S. In the meantime, the U.S., the Philippines and Australia plan to show off their strengthened ties with a bigger version of the joint Balikatan exercise, set for April. Tokyo also announced plans to buy all 400 of the Raytheon Technologies-made Tomahawks it is seeking from the U.S. 22 visit to Manila the U.S. But the U.S. The service’s role in a Pacific fight would be to furnish the joint force with long-range fires, as well as secure staging sites and communications. The Pentagon’s efforts to improve U.S. position in the region, the degree to which we are deepening our partnerships with our allies and partners, the degree to which they’re investing in their own capabilities, their ability to contribute to regional security and the degree which they’re working with with each other is really cause for optimism,” Ratner said in at event sponsored by the Hudson Institute, a conservative think tank. It capped a wave of personal diplomacy, in which Defense Secretary [Lloyd Austin](https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2023/02/01/austin-in-philippines-to-discuss-larger-us-military-presence/) visited the Philippines in 2021, President Joe Biden called Marcos to congratulate him on his election and Vice President Kamala Harris visited Manila in November.

The Philippine concerns over the South China Sea, including the illegal presence of foreign vessels and militia in the West Philippine Sea and the ...

MANILA -- The Philippines' concerns over encroachments in the West Philippine Sea are mainly from a national standpoint and are beyond the growing rivalry ...

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