While Chinese officials say the drills don’t target a third party, Russian leaders have made it clear the bilateral exercises in the Pacific are in part to provide a security partnership to the USA for countries in the region. The two nations, who were once communist rivals, have forged a partnership aimed at countering pressure from the USA and its allies over their military activities.
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Yang said China and Russian Federation were comprehensive strategic partners and had already held many exercises this year. “China will never accept any kind of dispute settlement by the third party and will never accept the settlement plans or ideas imposed upon China”.
The new President of the Philippines ran as a nationalist and can’t be seen to concede sovereign rights, while every school child in China is taught that almost all of the South China Sea is historically Chinese. a claim the global court threw out earlier this month.
The Philippines “vigorously pushed” for the inclusion of comment on an arbitration ruling in a joint statement from Southeast Asian countries but its failure to secure that was no diplomatic win for China, Manila’s foreign minister said on Wednesday.
China calls the ruling invalid, claiming the tribunal had no jurisdiction in the case.
In 2015, they organised joint military drills in the Sea of Japan and the Mediterranean Sea.
“The South China Sea protects China’s access to the India Ocean, which happens to be Beijing’s crucial energy lifeline”. China cautioned the system would destabilize security in the region.
“The Edca should be seen in terms of the mutual security relationship between the U.S. and the Philippines, wherein the Armed Forces of the Philippines can be modernized and will be able to conduct joint operations with their American counterparts as treaty allies”, Goldberg said in a TV interview. China has gone through lots of trouble, building islands, moving missiles and filming videos to assert its claim, and finally we learn why, to claim yet another world record! China surely wouldn’t want to lose all that so despite the differences, eventually both nations might come to a mutual agreement over contentious issues like the South China Sea.
He didn’t disclose the specific location, and some areas of the South China Sea are not disputed.
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China has blamed the US for causing heightened tensions in the contested waters with its patrols.
