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Gaining access to a Cambodian naval facility would give China’s navy little discernible strategic advantage. By April 07, 2021 The entrance to the Ream Naval Base in Preah Sihanouk province, Cambodia. Credit: Wikimedia Commons/Dmitry Makeev Advertisement The potential establishment of a Chinese naval base in Cambodia has received extensive attention since the publication of report by the Wall Street Journal in mid-2019, claiming that Cambodia had signed a secret agreement granting the People’s Liberation Army Navy access to the Ream Naval Base on the Gulf of Thailand. Much of this attent...

Chinese structures don't matter, West Philippine Sea is 'ours,' says Locsin Published April 1, 2021 3:36pm Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. on Thursday said the presence of Chinese man-made structures at Pagkakaisa Banks "don't matter" as the area is part of the Philippines' exclusive economic zone (EEZ). "Within our EEZ (exclusive economic zone) so it’s ours. The durability and vintage of the structures don’t matter. Ours," the nation's top diplomat said on Twitter. Locsin was reacting to a social media user's tweet who asked if the Philippines will claim ownership of ...

Who owns the high seas? The conventional answer is: no one and everyone. Coastal states exercise sovereignty over territorial waters that normally extend 12 nautical miles from their shorelines. They also have the right to exploit undersea resources like oil and gas in exclusive economic zones that extend out 200 nautical miles. Economics rights can even be extended further to incorporate the entire continental shelf before the seabed falls off into a deep ocean basin. These lawyerly definitions are contentious enough in their own terms, but they are next to meaningless when it comes to secur...

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Updated: 29 Jan 2021, 16:52 CHINA has warned that efforts by Taiwan to seek independence "mean war". 7 7 Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen has vowed to defend the island's freedom and not be coercedCredit: Alamy Live News Taiwan responded to China's incursion by scrambling fighters, broadcasting warnings by radio and deploying air defence missile systems, Taiwan's Defence Ministry said. Speaking on Thursday, Chinese defence ministry spokesman Wu Qian said its armed forces were acting in response to "provocation and foreign interference". Wu also said a "handful" of people in Taiwan were seeking...