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A series of voyages by multiple Western allies in mid-2021 through a disputed Asian sea will incite China, the waterway’s largest claimant, to shadow the foreign ships, hit back at the countries behind them and possibly hold a live-fire drill, analysts say. At least eight countries have indicated since late July plans to send navy… ....
China’s military may be examining its decades-old space program for ways to improve data collection and disrupt the satellites of other countries if needed, analysts said this week following a Mars landing and a debris crash into the Indian Ocean. Earlier this month China placed a rover on Mars, the official Xinhua News Agency reported,… ....
Analysts: Vietnam Expanding Fishing Militia In South China Sea 12 May 2021, 19:35 GMT+10 TAIPEI - Vietnam s maritime militia in the South China Sea shows signs of growing over the past decade, say scholars and a research institution in China where the government disputes parts of the waterway with Hanoi. According to the National Institute for South China Sea Studies, a research organization based in the Chinese province of Hainan, the 12-year-old militia numbers between 46,000 to 70,000 personnel. It says 13 platoons with a combined 3,000 people operate near the sea s contested Paracel Islands and another 10,000 people operate armed fishing boats off southern Vietnam. Ten years ago the militia was just starting up , said Yun Sun, East Asia Program senior associate at the Stimson Center in Washington. ....