Three key issues in Pacific to shape Biden s China policy batonrougepost.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from batonrougepost.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Gregory B. Poling, senior fellow for
Southeast Asia and director of the Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative, and senior associate
Murray Hiebert entitled Vietnam Party Congress Meets to Choose Leaders, Set Policy Direction :
The Vietnam Communist Party launched its 13th congress on
January 25, a crucial meeting held every five years to choose the country s top leaders and set its major policy course. Nearly 1,600 delegates will seek to set a direction to boost economic growth and navigate the nation s greatest foreign policy challenge: increasing competition between the world s two superpowers,
China and
Q1: What issues will the party congress address?
A1: The biggest issue is leadership succession, which has preoccupied the upper echelons of the party for much of the past year. First the Central Committee, a body of about 200 members responsible for implementing decisions taken by the party congress, must be selected. That committee will then elect the Politbur
China Expands Naval Base in Disputed Asian Sea
January 21, 2021
FILE - Flags with the logo of the Communist Party of China fly in the breeze near a launch pad at the Wenchang Space Launch Site in Wenchang in southern China s Hainan province, Monday, Nov. 23, 2020. China’s military has expanded a navy base in the South China Sea.
Share
share
The URL has been copied to your clipboard
0:00
0:05:20
0:00
Pop-out player
China’s People s Liberation Army has expanded a navy base in the South China Sea. The expansion has taken place over at least the past year. The base is on the island province of Hainan.
Over the past year, China s navy expanded Yulin naval base on the island province of Hainan from a conventional submarine facility into a bay that berths nuclear submarines, military news database GlobalSecurity.org said.
Four trestles for submarines, each 229 metres long, can hold 16 submarines, it says. Aircraft carriers and remote-sensing equipment are also expected to be based at or near Yulin, the report said.
READ MORE:
The Yulin Naval Base on the Chinese island province of Hainan.(Nine) It s going to be kind of a future-oriented construction, said Alexander Huang, strategic studies professor at Taiwan s Tamkang University. It takes time. It looks like they have all the hardware, all the construction ready, and it s still going on.
But security analysts have proposed that the latest expansion is to allow for nuclear submarine bays.
Military news database GlobalSecurity.org said that intelligence had found four new trestles for submarines, each 229 meters long, that can accommodate 16 submarines.
Intelligence sources also stated the base will be made secure for China s aircraft carriers.
Remote-sensing equipment are also expected to be based at the Yulin site.
China s aircraft carriers will be docked at the expanded base (Image: GETTY)
China s military troops (Image: GETTY)
Alexander Huang, strategic studies professor at Taiwan’s Tamkang University said: “It’s going to be kind of a future-oriented construction. It takes time.