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01.18.18Oil Spill off China Coast Now the Size of Paris
CNN
An oil spill from an Iranian oil tanker that sank in the East China Sea is now the size of Paris.
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01.16.18Huge Oil Spill Spreads in East China Sea, Stirring Environmental Fears
New York Times
Greenpeace said the disaster occurred in “an important spawning ground” for fish.
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01.09.18East China Sea Oil Tanker Burns for Third Day as Winds, High Waves Lash Rescuers
Reuters
The poor conditions, with rain and waves as high as 3 meters (10 feet), frustrated efforts to tame the fire and search for the 31 remaining tanker crew members, China’s Ministry of Transport said in a statement on Tuesday.
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12.21.17A Second Territorial Dispute in Asia Could Be More Dangerous Than the South China Sea
CNBC
When it comes to territorial disputes in Asia, the South China Sea typically commands the bulk of attention.
China in the World Podcast
09.28.16
North Korea and The South China Sea: What’s Next?
from Carnegie China
Given the increasingly complex security environment in the Asia-Pacific, it is critical for the United States and China to deepen cooperation on promoting regional stability. In this podcast, Paul Haenle and Admiral Gary Roughead, former Chief of...
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08.15.16China Pledges to Cut Size of Its Massive Fishing Fleet Due to Serious Threat to Nation’s Fish Stocks
South China Morning Post
The government said there were practically “no fish” in the coastal East China Sea.
Conversation
06.13.16
A War of Words Over the South China Sea
Beginning earlier this year, four-star Admiral Harry Harris, the U.S. Navy’s top commander in the Pacific, has spoken out in speeches, interviews, private meetings, and testimony to Congress urging that the U.S. take more aggressive action against...
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06.09.16A First: Chinese Naval Vessel Enters Senkaku Contiguous Zone in East China Sea
Diplomat
Previously, China had only sent its coast guard into Japan’s territorial sea and contiguous zone.
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03.28.16Japan Opens Radar Station Close to Disputed Isles, Drawing Angry China Response
Reuters
Expert said it was part of a strategy to keep China at bay in the Western Pacific.
Viewpoint
01.08.16
The Storm Beneath the Calm: China’s Regional Relations in 2016
On the surface, 2015 came to a close in a moment of relative tranquility after a turbulent year for China’s neighborhood. But the calm is misleading: the optics of regional diplomacy have become increasingly detached from the reality of the...
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12.26.15Japan Protests Intrusion of Armed Chinese Vessel Into its Waters
Bloomberg
The vessel was formerly a People’s Liberation Army Navy ship and is now operated by another department.
Conversation
11.18.15
How Can China’s Neighbors Make Progress at APEC?
Ahead of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit next week, we asked a group of experts from China’s neighboring countries what they thought the main thrust of discussion in Manila should be. If host, the Philippines, under pressure from...
Two Way Street
09.21.15
New Chinese Book Says the U.S.-China ‘Feast on Power’ is Winding Down
from Two Way Street
At a time of heightened tensions between the U.S. and China, it comes as little surprise that a new and important book on the bilateral relations, published by a think tank affiliated with the Chinese Foreign Ministry, should have the foreboding...
Features
09.02.15
Parading the People’s Republic
from China Heritage Quarterly
In light of the September 3, 2015, mega military parade held at Tiananmen Square in Beijing both to mark the seventieth anniversary of the end of Second Sino-Japanese War in 1945 and to acclaim the achievements of Xi Jinping, China’s Chairman of...
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04.29.15China on My Mind: U.S.-Japan Visit Mostly About Beijing, State Media Says
Wall Street Journal
U.S.-Japan talks mainly served to throw into relief concerns about China.
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04.22.15Xi Jinping of China and Shinzo Abe of Japan Meet Amid Slight Thaw in Ties
New York Times
The meeting signaled a continued slight warming in otherwise frosty relations between Asia’s two top economies.
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03.19.15China, Japan Start First Security Talks in Four Years
Reuters
Step aimed at thawing ties plagued by the legacy of Japan’s wartime aggression and a territorial dispute.
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08.07.14China Says Japan Fighter Jets Shadowed its Planes over Disputed Waters
Reuters
Tension has been high between Asia's two largest economies in recent months, with each accusing the other of flying military aircraft too close to its own jets in a long-running territorial dispute.
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07.15.14Many Asian Nations Believe That a War With China Is Looming
Time
A majority in the Asian countries polled in a new Pew study say they fear a looming military conflict with China.
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07.09.14Kerry Presses China to Abide by Maritime Laws to Ease Tensions
New York Times
In a closed-door session at a high-level gathering of Chinese and American officials here on Wednesday, Secretary of State John Kerry urged China to follow maritime law in nearby seas to reduce regional tensions.
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07.07.14China’s Rise and Asian Tensions Send U.S. Relations Into Downward Spiral
Washington Post
Hundreds of rocky islands, islets, sandbanks, reefs and cays lie scattered across Asia’s eastern waters, unimportant-looking to the naked eye but significant enough to spark what may be the most worrying deterioration in U.S.-China relations in...
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06.30.14Chinese Territorial Claims Driving Asia Closer to U.S.
Wall Street Journal
Muscle flexing by the Chinese in the South China Sea is driving Asian neighbors into a closer alliance with the U.S. and feeding regional insecurity, cautioned one of Australia's most senior government ministers.
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06.12.14China, Japan Blame Each Other for Jet Encounter
Washington Post
The Chinese government released video that purports to show Japanese fighter planes flying dangerously close to a Chinese fighter planes over the disputed waters of the East China Sea.
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05.28.14China is Stealing a Strategic March on the US
Financial Times
Bit by bit Beijing is creating new facts, and with each incident, it throws down the gauntlet.
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05.26.14Close Call as China Scrambles Fighter Jets on Japanese Aircraft in Disputed Territory
CNN
The fly-bys occurred in airspace claimed by both countries as part of their "air defense identification zones," while China carried out joint maritime exercises with Russia at the weekend.
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04.16.14A Role for Taiwan in Promoting Peace in the South China Sea
Center for Strategic and International Studies
Taiwan has a chance to set a positive example and chart a peaceful course in managing and eventually resolving East Asian maritime disputes.
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01.31.14China is Playing Chicken with the U.S. Military in the South China Sea
Global Post
Vessels from the U.S. military and other countries increasingly find themselves in high-stakes confrontations in the region.
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01.29.14Baucus Pledges to Press China on Security Issues, Trade in Hearing on Ambassador Post
Washington Post
Baucus says he will hold firm on human rights, intellectual property, free trade, and marine navigation.
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01.23.14Survey: Fewer Americans Support the Japan-U.S. Security Treaty
Asahi Shimbun
Some observors say the decline may be due to a reluctance to involve the U.S. in Sino-Japanese disputes.
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01.23.14Senior Diplomat William Burns in China Amid Tension Over Beijing’s Military Development, Island Disputes
CBS News
The meeting was seen as helpful in clearing up misunderstanding, but nothing in the way of significant progress.
Media
12.19.13
Chinese Admiral to U.S. Navy: ‘We Will Block You’
On December 5, the U.S. missile-carrying cruiser Cowpens almost collided with a Chinese ship in international waters. The Cowpens was observing the maiden voyage of China’s new aircraft carrier, the Liaoning, when a vessel accompanying it cut across...
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12.10.13
Joe Biden and the ADIZ Fracas
On the weekend of November 23, Beijing announced the establishment of a new Air Defense Identification Zone. Covering a large swath of the East China Sea, the move was intended to assert China’s control over disputed islands in the region, and...
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12.04.13China’s ADIZ and the Implications for North East Asia
International Crisis Group
China’s recent declaration of an Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ) in the East China Sea has stimulated much debate and concern and interpretations have varied widely. The Chinese government has asserted that the ADIZ is in accordance with...
Media
12.04.13
Chinese Chortle at U.S. Request to Scrap Controversial Air Defense Zone
The United States wants China to pull back from its gambit to try to rewrite the East China Sea’s status quo, but the Chinese are having none of it. On December 2, the U.S. State Department said China’s newly-declared air defense identification zone...