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2019-04-08 | BY Hu Bo
The Chinese government continues to exercise some restraint on the South China Sea issue. It has made no radical moves other than tracking, expelling and protesting against increasing US military operations in the South China Sea. With regard to the construction on islands and reefs in the South China Sea, military deployment on these islands and reefs has not been proceeded as fast as expected...
2019-04-08 | BY Hu Bo
It is imperative that China and the US enhance the quality of maritime strategic dialogue. To date, China and the US has not held any in-depth substantial talks over the situation of the South China Sea. Both sides are still reiterating their positions through various mechanisms, including the US-China Diplomatic and Security Dialogue (2+2). China asks the US not to violate China’s sovereignty...
PREFACE
Since 2018, the situations of the South China Sea, in general, have continued to ease. Disputes have been well under control, and no major crisis has broken out among the claimants. With the dual-track approach, relevant parties have accelerated consultations on the Code of Conduct (COC) in the South China Sea and proactively implemented maritime pragmatic cooperation and crisis...
2019-04-08 | BY Tang Pei
As some of these countries enhance the power presence and military activities in the South China Sea in a way to cooperate with the U.S., security confrontation and geopolitical tensions are bound to be intensified in the region.
2019-04-05 | BY Yan Yan
While attending the ASEAN foreign ministers’ meeting in Vientiane, Laos on July 25, 2016, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi put forward four visions on the Code of Conduct (COC) consultation, one of which was that China and ASEAN states would finish their consultation on the COC outline in the first half of 2017 without disturbances. Wang remarked that China also planned to fast-track the COC...