State Department hints at arms sales, while carrier group enters South China Sea

SOUTH CHINA SEA -- The Theodore Roosevelt Carrier Strike Group (TRCSG) entered the South China Sea January 23 to conduct routine operations.The TRCSG is on a scheduled deployment to the U.S. 7th Fleet

BEIJING: China has passed a law that for the first time explicitly allows its coast guard to fire on foreign vessels, a move that could make the contested waters around China even more choppy.

The United States often sends ships and aircraft into the South China Sea to "flex its muscles" and this is not good for peace, China's Foreign Ministry said on Monday, after a U.S. aircraft carrier group sailed into the disputed waterway.

Despite tough talk between the U.S. and China over the South China Sea, their respective navies interact on a “predictable and professional” basis, a Navy official said.

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The fortnight-long anti-submarine warfare exercise Sea Dragon 2021 is being organised by the United States as its Andersen Air Force Base in Guam.

South China Sea's Pratas becomes latest front in the Beijing-Washington battle

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'When China was saying to the ASEAN, 'let's have that code of conduct,' it was busy preparing this law to kill the code of conduct,' says former Supreme Court justice Antonio Carpio

Chinese research vessel Jia Geng was seen anchored off the coast of Bato, Catanduanes since Jan. 28. Authorities say that its presence in Philippine waters in the last few days had no clearance from the Philippine government. Contributed photo

The United States on Wednesday hailed plans by NATO ally Germany to sail a warship across the contested South China Sea, calling it welcome support for a "rules-based international order" in the region, something Washington says is threatened by China.

The U.S. is undertaking “strategic planning” with its Australian ally to consider potential joint responses to a war over Taiwan, according to President Joe Biden’s top diplomat in Canberra.

President Joseph R. Biden is honored to welcome Prime Minister Suga Yoshihide for the first foreign-leader visit of his presidency. Today, the United

President Joe Biden on Friday sought to present a united front with Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga to counter an increasingly assertive China as the U.S. leader held his first face-to-face White House summit since taking office.

While there is a widely accepted international law of the sea, reflected in the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), the great powers of the world are divided over competing and, in some cases, incompatible, domestic maritime laws or interpretations…