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Swedish lawmakers to PHL: Don’t be naive, build own capability
A DELEGATION of parliamentarians from Sweden recently visited the Philippines for a "fact-finding" mission to seek ways to improve bilateral cooperation, including ways to jointly promote rules-based ...
US Warned of Caribbean Becoming 'Chinese Lake'
Experts told Newsweek that Beijing could use the Trump administration's withdrawal of USAID to boost influence in the Caribbean.
US takes rivalry with China to the high seas
The United States may still have the world's most powerful navy but it seems to have realised that this is no longer sufficient to reassert US supremacy over the high ...
Opinion
Why China conducted naval drills in waters between Australia and New Zealand
Readers discuss Beijing's maritime strategy, the US' global influence, and the rise of China's creative industry Feel strongly about these letters, or any other aspects of the news? Share your views ...
Foreign Affairs1d
The Myth of the Hardened Border
EDWARD ALDEN is a Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and a former Washington Bureau Chief for the Financial ...
Canada and Philippines will sign a key defense pact to boost combat drills and military ties
Canada and the Philippines, both vocal critics of China’s increasingly aggressive actions in the South China Sea, have ...
China's foreign minister blasts the US over tariffs at his annual meeting with journalists
Along with fulminating against the United States, China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi reasserted China's South China Sea claims, ...
Foreign Policy Research Institute2d
Russia and China in the Indo-Pacific: China’s Use of the Instruments of Power
In the early 2000s, Russia and China had heeded US preferences regarding the Korean Peninsula by engaging in multilateralism with the Six-Party Talks to deal ...
TASS Russian News Agency3d
U.S. cannot afford conflict with another nuclear power — Chinese expert
As Xin Qiang emphasized, the possibility of conflict between the two nations does exist, particularly concerning the Taiwan ...
China’s warships are turning up in unexpected places and alarming US allies. Is this the new normal?
Chinese warships have been circumnavigating Australia’s coastline for more than three weeks, passing within 200 miles of ...
Wilson Center3d
America’s Maritime Blind Spot: How China is Gaining the Upper Hand on the High Seas
But while America remained complacent, China methodically expanded its maritime dominance, ensuring the steady flow of its own cargo while developing the capability to disrupt American supply chains ...