UN Ruling Won’t End South China Sea Dispute: Navy Studies Next Clash

UN Ruling Won’t End South China Sea Dispute: Navy Studies Next Clash
UN Ruling Won’t End South China Sea Dispute: Navy Studies Next Clash

A UN tribunal ruling could trigger the next round of brinksmanship in the South China Sea as early as next week. But don’t expect the ruling to end the dispute, especially since the Chinese have already vowed to ignore an adverse ruling. “It’s…not likely to be resolved this year or by one international ruling, no matter how brilliant…

Weighing How Much Intel US Gets: Hawaiian Lawmaker Calls To Bar China From RIMPAC

Weighing How Much Intel US Gets: Hawaiian Lawmaker Calls To Bar China From RIMPAC
Weighing How Much Intel US Gets: Hawaiian Lawmaker Calls To Bar China From RIMPAC

WASHINGTON: China, which continues to militarize the fake islands it’s creating in the South China Sea, may get uninvited to RIMPAC, the biggest naval exercise in the world. Rep. Mark Takai of Hawaii told Defense Secretary Ash Carter during yesterday’s House Armed Services Committee posture hearing that he will introduce language into the House version of…

Summits Over Substance: Obama Yields To Chinese President Xi

Summits Over Substance: Obama Yields To Chinese President Xi
Summits Over Substance: Obama Yields To Chinese President Xi

  As Washington gears up for the visit of Chinese leader Xi Jinping, right on the heels of the Pontiff, there is a growing urgency for the United States to make clear to Beijing that its behavior is leading to increased tension at both the bilateral and regional level. But, there appears little appetite for…

SecDef Carter Tells McCain Chinese Can Come To RIMPAC

SecDef Carter Tells McCain Chinese Can Come To RIMPAC
SecDef Carter Tells McCain Chinese Can Come To RIMPAC

WASHINGTON: Defense Secretary Ash Carter — for now — is resisting congressional calls to uninvite China from the biggest naval exercise in the world, known as RIMPAC. In a July 16 letter to Senate Armed Services Committee chairman John McCain, Carter goes to some lengths to avoid offending China, on the one hand, and, on the…