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Three years into his quiescent China policy, Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte is experiencing a rude awakening in the South China Sea. The ongoing Chinese siege of the Philippines’ largest land feature in the Spratlys, Thitu Island, represents Duterte’s greatest foreign policy crisis and, ironically, the very country he has courted assiduously is at the heart of it.

Since December 2018, an armada of Chinese paramilitary vessels have swarmed Thitu, a disputed land feature permanently occupied by dozens of Filipino troops and civilians for the past half-century. The island has even had resident mayors. Thus, China’s latest strategy to swarm around the island has been perceived as “an almost invasion” among Filipinos, who have launched anti-China protests in recent weeks. The widespread backlash comes amid crucial midterm elections, which serves as a de facto referendum on Duterte’s presidency.

Under growing public pressure, Duterte and his surrogates have adopted an increasingly tough stance, with the Philippine president warning China, “If you touch it [Thitu Island]…I will tell my soldiers [to] ‘prepare for suicide missions.’” The Philippine government threatened to take the case to the United Nations General Assembly if necessary, while Foreign Secretary Teodoro Locsin declared he has “no fear of war” to resist China’s actions.

If left unresolved, the ongoing siege could torpedo Duterte’s rapprochement with Beijing much as the Scarborough Shoal crisis in 2012 poisoned Philippine-China relations for year. Duterte has now found himself stuck between an overbearing China and an enraged Filipino public.
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https://amti.csis.org/dutertes-scarborough-shoal-moment/

Ei mene Dutertella hyvin. Filippiinit on velkaa Kiinalla ja mahdollisuutta ei ole maksaa niitä takaisin. Antaako saaren hyvällä vai pahalla?
 
The U.S. military said it sent two Navy warships through the Taiwan Strait on Sunday as the Pentagon increases the frequency of movement through the strategic waterway despite opposition from China.

The voyage risks further raising tensions with China but will likely be viewed by self-ruled Taiwan as a sign of support from the Trump administration amid growing friction between Taipei and Beijing.
Taiwan is one of a growing number of flashpoints in the U.S.-China relationship, which also include a trade war, U.S. sanctions and China’s increasingly muscular military posture in the South China Sea, where the United States also conducts freedom-of-navigation patrols.

The two destroyers were identified as the William P. Lawrence and Stethem. The 112-mile-wide (180-km) Taiwan Strait separates Taiwan from China.

“The ships’ transit through the Taiwan Strait demonstrates the U.S. commitment to a free and open Indo-Pacific,” Commander Clay Doss, a spokesman for the U.S. Navy’s Seventh Fleet, said in a statement.
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https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...through-strategic-taiwan-strait-idUSKCN1S5003

The U.S. says Chinese spies “are increasingly recruiting U.S. intelligence officers as part of a widening, sustained campaign to shake loose government secrets,” the Wall Street Journal reported Sunday evening.

What’s new here? “China now appears to be aiming to recruit people whom it previously might not have viewed as susceptible to its overtures. It is deploying familiar strategies of dangling cash and gifts, establishing covert communication methods and tasking recruits with increasingly detailed requests for secrets,” the Journal writes.

For example, “a 63-year-old former State Department employee, admitted in court that she accepted about $20,000 in cash, plane tickets and rent and living expenses for a relative from two Chinese men” in a case from just last week. “One [of the men] was a Ministry of State Security officer and that the other was an intermediary for Chinese intelligence, she acknowledged in her plea.”

Said FBI Director Chris Wray on Friday: “No country poses a broader, more severe intelligence-collection threat than China. They’re doing it through Chinese intelligence services, through state-owned enterprises, through ostensibly private companies, through graduate students and researchers, through a variety of actors all working on behalf of China.”
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https://www.defenseone.com/news/2019/04/the-d-brief-april-29-2019/156598/?oref=d-river
 
Arvasin tämän vuosia sitten, mutta harmi vain että Kiina ei halua jakaa avaruusteknologiaansa muiden kanssa. Jos tämä lähtee toimimaan niin ihan varmaan Kiina ei lähde alueelta muuten kuin pakottamalla. Kuka siihen haluaa ryhtyä?

China plans to launch a Long March-11 carrier rocket at sea this year, which is expected to lower the cost of entering space.

The rocket has been named "CZ-11 WEY" under an agreement between the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology, China Space Foundation and a Chinese automobile producer.

China's first seaborne rocket launch is scheduled for mid-2019 in the Yellow Sea, said Jin Xin, deputy chief commander of the rocket, at a press conference of the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation earlier this year.

A seaborne launch has many advantages over a land launch. For instance, the launch site is flexible and falling rocket remains pose less danger. Using civilian ships to launch rockets at sea would lower launch costs and give it a commercial edge, said experts.

The seaborne launch technology will help China provide launch services for countries participating in the Belt and Road Initiative.

The Long March-11, with a length of 20.8 meters and a takeoff weight of about 57.6 tonnes, is the only rocket using solid propellants among China's new generation carrier rockets. It has a relatively simple structure and can be launched in a short time.

The rocket can carry a payload of up to 350 kg to a sun-synchronous orbit at an altitude of 700 km and 700 kg to a low-Earth orbit at 200 km. It is mainly used to carry small satellites, and can take multiple satellites into orbit at the same time.

The Long March-11, which made its maiden flight on Sept. 25, 2015, has so far sent 25 satellites into orbit in six launches with high reliability and good performance rates.

In addition, Chinese space experts are also developing the engine for a modified version of the Long March-11 rocket, which is expected to carry up to 1.5 tonnes of payloads to the sun-synchronous orbit at an altitude of 700 km.
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http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/China_plans_to_launch_carrier_rocket_at_sea_999.html
 
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Filipinos have started voting in midterm polls that are being seen as a crucial referendum on Rodrigo Duterte’s brutal crackdown on illegal drugs, unorthodox style and contentious embrace of China.

The poll is expected to strengthen the controversial president’s grip on power, paving the way for him to deliver on pledges to restore the death penalty and rewrite the constitution.

Duterte has found international infamy for his foul-mouthed tirades, but remains hugely popular among Filipinos fed up with the country’s dysfunction and elite politicians.
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...re-as-61-million-vote-in-philippines-midterms
 
A US warship has sailed near the disputed Scarborough Shoal claimed by China in the South China Sea, a move likely to anger Beijing at a time of tense ties between the world’s two biggest economies.

The destroyer USS Preble carried out the operation on Sunday, a US military spokesman said. The busy waterway is one of a growing number of flashpoints in the US-China relationship, which also include a trade war, the blacklisting of tech company Huawei US sanctions and Taiwan.

“Preble sailed within 12 nautical miles of Scarborough Reef in order to challenge excessive maritime claims and preserve access to the waterways as governed by international law,” said Commander Clay Doss, a spokesman for the Seventh Fleet.
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...-disputed-south-china-sea-amid-trade-tensions
 
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Taiwan says it has started construction of a trio of stealthy missile corvettes with what appear to be racks for naval mines on the stern, as well as four dedicated minelayers. Naval mining could be an extremely important tool against China’s People’s Liberation Army Navy, especially in the narrow confines of the Taiwan Strait, during any future crisis. The Taiwanese announcement comes amid a recent spike in tensions with authorities on the mainland, who continue to warn they could invade the island if it seeks to declare independence.

Taiwanese President Tsai Ing Wen revealed the new details about the country’s naval shipbuilding efforts during a visit to one of Lung Teh Shipbuilding's shipyard on May 24, 2019. The country’s Navy is set to receive the three Min Chiang-class corvettes in 2025. The first of the four of the Gan Chiang-class minelayers is supposed to have arrived four years before then.
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https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zo...ns-will-have-serious-mine-laying-capabilities
 
Singapore — China’s so-called maritime militia is believed to be behind a series of laser attacks against an Australian naval helicopter over the South China Sea, soon after a U.S. admiral warned that the paramilitary force could be treated as combatants.

A report in the Australian Broadcasting Corporation on May 29, quoting Australian Defence Department sources, said that the crew of a Royal Australian Navy helicopter was targeted by lasers from nearby fishing vessels during a night flight.

The helicopter landed safely on its ship following the attack, where crew members were given a medical checkup and cleared of any injury. The helicopter was flying from an Australian naval ship taking part in a regional engagement mission.

The report did not say if the fishing vessel that targeted the helicopter with lasers was Chinese-flagged, although that country has the largest such fleet in the region by far.

However, some believe that many of these vessels are not engaged in fishing activities, but in fact belong to the maritime militia, a paramilitary force engaged in “patrol, surveillance, resupply, and other missions to bolster China’s presence in contested waters in the South and East China Seas,” according to a report by the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington-based think tank.
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https://www.defensenews.com/global/...ime-militia-challenges-foreign-forces-at-sea/
 
It has been called “the nail in Hong Kong’s coffin”, a bill that activists say will “legitimise Chinese abduction” from the city. But the city’s legislators are pushing ahead with the controversial extradition law that will give mainland China the right to request the transfer of alleged criminals.

Opponents have geared up for a fight, with a rally on Sunday expected to draw up to half a million people onto the city’s streets. The demonstration is supported by human rights and legal groups and the leaders of Hong Kong’s movement to preserve its tenuous grip on democracy.

They fear the law, which will have its second reading before the legislature next week, will be used by Beijing to target its political enemies. It has prompted despair from many, who worry it heralds the effective end of the city’s independence from China.

In its current form, the legislation would allow for case-by-case extraditions to mainland China and eliminate some oversight roles of the chief executive’s cabinet and the city’s legislative body. The legislature is seeking to pass it before the summer break in July.

“All they need is a witness statement saying you committed some crime 20 years ago,” says Martin Lee QC, a barrister, former legislator and leading pro-democracy figure. “That is enough, and then you’ll be tried according to Chinese law in a Chinese court. And who can trust that system?”

Critics have accused the Hong Kong administration, led by Carrie Lam, of being “Beijing’s puppet”. But Lam’s administration claims the bill closes a legal loophole. It says the law – and the rush to pass it – is justified because of the case of a Taiwanese man wanted for the murder of his girlfriend.
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...-activists-gear-up-to-protest-extradition-law

Hong Kong on iso ongelma XIn imperium unelmissa. Uskon että mikä tahansa maapläntti joka jää Kiinalaisten haltuun tullaan puhdistamaan väärämielisistä vuosien varrella. Ehkä diktaturia on ainoa keino heille pitää miljardi kansa kasassa.
 
Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam has said she will not scrap a controversial plan to allow extradition to mainland China, despite mass protests.

On Sunday, hundreds of thousands of people rallied against the bill which critics fear allows China to target political opponents in the region.

Speaking to reporters on Monday, she insisted the law was necessary and said human rights safeguards were in place.

Chinese state media said "foreign forces" were behind the protests.

Organisers estimate that one million people took part in Sunday's march, although police put the figure at 240,000 at its peak.

If the organisers' estimate is confirmed as correct, it would be the largest demonstration in Hong Kong since the territory was handed over to China by the British in 1997.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-48577907
 
Kiinalaiset upottaneet päälle ajamalla filippiiniläisen ankkuroidun kalastuslaivan 150km päässä filippiinien rannikolta.

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Philippines Accuses Chinese Vessel of Sinking Fishing Boat in Disputed Waters (Published 2019)

The collision put the lives of 22 crew members at risk, officials said, as the two countries stake competing claims to the South China Sea.
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"The Philippines on Wednesday accused a Chinese vessel of ramming a Philippine boat in the disputed South China Sea, causing it to sink and putting the lives of the crew at risk.

Although the 22 fishermen onboard were rescued by a Vietnamese fishing vessel in the area, Philippine officials said the collision on Sunday had left them “to the mercy of the elements.”

"The Philippine vessel, FB Gimber1, was anchored near Recto Bank in the South China Sea, a strategically important area that is claimed in whole or in part by China, the Philippines, Brunei, Malaysia, Taiwan and Vietnam"
 
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Hong kongin mielenosoitukset, Taivaallisen rauhan vuosipäivä, Xinjiangin keskitysleirit, Hurmuzin salmessa palaa tankkeri (pääasiallinen öljyreitti) ja nyt sitten tämä.
 
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