China’s ‘dangerous actions,’ and regional chess moves: The Pacific in 2023

China’s ‘dangerous actions,’ and regional chess moves: The Pacific in 2023
China’s ‘dangerous actions,’ and regional chess moves: The Pacific in 2023

Months of Chinese harassment of Philippine vessels culminated in early December with up to 135 Chinese ships swarming the Philippines around Scarborough Shoal.

US To China: You Do NOT Control South China Sea

US To China: You Do NOT Control South China Sea
US To China: You Do NOT Control South China Sea

“Beijing’s approach has been clear for years,” Mike Pompeo says. “In 2010, then-PRC Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi told his ASEAN counterparts that “China is a big country and other countries are small countries and that is just a fact.’ The PRC’s predatory world view has no place in the 21st century.”

US-China Likely To Clash At Shangri La

US-China Likely To Clash At Shangri La
US-China Likely To Clash At Shangri La

We could see the most direct U.S. challenge to China since 2005, when Defense Secretary Rumsfeld became the proverbial skunk at the globalist garden party in Singapore by bluntly chastising the Chinese for what was then only the very beginning of their military modernization program. 

Adms. Davidson In, Harris Out At Indo-Pacific Command

Adms. Davidson In, Harris Out At Indo-Pacific Command
Adms. Davidson In, Harris Out At Indo-Pacific Command

WASHINGTON: There’s a new admiral in charge at the renamed Indo-Pacific Command, Adm. Philip Davidson. Davidson, as we’ve noted, has relatively little firsthand experience with the peoples and region over which he will now command 60 percent of the US Navy fleet, along with substantial Marine, Army and Air Force assets throughout the region. Davidson, as…