CCP Adviser Outlines Plan to Control South China Sea, Challenge US Dominance in Indo-Pacific
The Chinese regime aims to seize all of the South China Sea to eventually control parts of the wider Indo-Pacific and challenge U.S. dominance in the region, according to a well-known Chinese professor.
The plans illustrated by the professor, who also advises the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), stand in stark contrast with the CCP’s public declarations on its behavior in the waterway.
The Chinese regime has continued to lay claims to almost all of the South China Sea, despite a 2016 international tribunal ruling that rejected Beijing’s territorial claims. Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan, and Vietnam all have competing claims over various atolls, islands, and reefs in the strategic waterway that is one of the busiest shipping lanes in the world.
By detaining Aung San Suu Kyi and democratically elected officials, the Myanmar military has wiped away ten years and two successful elections of democratic progress. Why did the military decide to seize power now? Does the coup d’état present China with a golden opportunity to reassert its influence in Yangon at the expense of Japan’s carefully cultivated connections to Myanmar’s civilian and military leaders?
Security concerns on Myanmar border delaying vital project linking Kolkata to Mizoram, says home ministry
The Union home ministry has said that a continuing threat on the Myanmar border is delaying the mega-infrastructure project for enhancing connectivity to the north-east linking Kolkata to Mizoram via Sitwe port.
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UPDATED: December 24, 2020 16:32 IST
File image for representation: A man rides his motorised two-wheeler across the Indo-Myanmar border bridge at the border town of Moreh, in the northeastern Indian state of Manipur. (Reuters photo)
The Union home ministry has listed security concerns and lack of access as the reasons for the delay in the mega-infrastructure project for enhancing connectivity to the north-east linking Kolkata to Mizoram via Sitwe port.