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Asia maritime tensions

  • Thursday, 12 December, 2024
    Philippines considers new UN case against Beijing over South China Sea activity

    Manila hopes to enlist other countries to add to pressure on China

    A China Coast Guard ship is seen from a Philippine Coast Guard vessel during a supply mission in disputed waters of the South China Sea in August
  • Sunday, 10 November, 2024
    Philippines aims to buy US missile launcher in move likely to anger China

    Typhon intermediate-range system first deployed in archipelago for bilateral exercises

    A mid-range capability launcher arrives in Northern Luzon, Philippines, on April 8 2024
  • Friday, 8 November, 2024
    News in-depthIndonesian politics
    Indonesia’s president seeks closer ties to Xi and China

    First foreign trip in office signals Beijing’s importance for investment but will be followed by US visit

    Prabowo Subianto clasping Xi’s right hand with both of his hands in front of national flags at the Great Hall of the People, in Beijing, China on April 1 2024
  • Thursday, 24 October, 2024
    Indonesia says it drove Chinese coastguard ships out of disputed waters

    Beijing’s sweeping maritime claims and muscular enforcement actions have been creating friction in South China Sea

    Personnel wearing orange life vests are seen on the deck of a Chinese coastguard ship in the disputed South China Sea waters.
  • Monday, 14 October, 2024
    Chinese military
    China deploys record number of warplanes in drills around Taiwan

    Manoeuvres come after president asserted sovereignty but asked Beijing to co-operate to secure peace

    A Chinese warship sails in the foreground, with the aircraft carrier Shandong visible in the background under a partly cloudy sky during battle group training in footage released in August 2022
  • Wednesday, 2 October, 2024
    Vietnamese fishermen injured in clash with Chinese vessels

    Confrontation near Paracel Islands highlights rising hostilities in disputed waters of South China Sea

    A Chinese coastguard vessel passes near a Chinese oil rig in the South China Sea
  • Sunday, 15 September, 2024
    Philippines withdraws from disputed reef in South China Sea

    Move to test Beijing’s willingness to de-escalate tensions with Manila

    Philippine coastguards carry a crew member off the BRP Teresa Magbanua after the vessel arrives at a port
  • Wednesday, 11 September, 2024
    US-China relations
    Top Chinese general to visit US as militaries step up engagement

    Move marks latest effort to defuse tensions over Taiwan and South China Sea

    United Kingdom’s carrier strike group led by HMS Queen Elizabeth and Japan Maritime Self-Defense Forces led by Hyuga-class helicopter destroyer JS Ise joined with US Navy carrier strike groups led by flagships USS Ronald Reagan and USS Carl Vinson sails to conduct multiple carrier strike group operations in the Philippine Sea
  • Tuesday, 10 September, 2024
    US-China relations
    US and Chinese military commanders in Indo-Pacific hold first call

    Exchange is latest sign of renewed engagement to ease bilateral tensions

    Admiral Samuel Paparo speaks at a press conference in the Philippines on August 29. He is wearing a military uniform and standing in front of the flags of the United States and the Philippines.
  • Tuesday, 3 September, 2024
    News in-depth
    How China’s coastguard is ‘trying to occupy the ocean’

    Maritime force is increasingly using police powers to project Beijing’s control over disputed waters

    A montage of a Chinese coastguard ship against a background of much smaller ships
  • Tuesday, 27 August, 2024
    Japanese politics & policy
    Japan says China’s airspace incursion ‘totally unacceptable’

    Tokyo says two-minute incident was first involving Chinese military plane and marked a threat to national security

    Yoshimasa Hayashi, Japan's chief cabinet secretary, speaks during a press conference at the prime minister’s office in Tokyo on Tuesday
  • Monday, 19 August, 2024
    China and Philippines trade accusations over South China Sea collision

    Incident comes despite temporary détente last month over disputed territory

    Damage on a Philippine coast guard vessel after a collision with a Chinese coast guard ship on Monday
  • Thursday, 25 July, 2024
    Chinese military
    Russia and China fly joint air patrols near US for first time

    Manoeuvre marks further deepening of military co-operation between Moscow and Beijing

    A Tu-95 strategic bomber of the Russian air force is refueled in the air during a join Russia-China air patrol
  • Thursday, 25 July, 2024
    FT News Briefing podcast13 min listen
    Are Indian investors sitting on a bubble?

    Millions of India’s citizens have piled into shares and options, egged on by online ‘finfluencers’

  • Wednesday, 24 July, 2024
    News in-depth
    The flashpoints that threaten a détente between China and the Philippines

    Manila fears control of Sabina Shoal could help Beijing enforce territorial claims over disputed region

    The Philippine Coast Guard patrols beside ships said to be Chinese militia vessels at Sabina Shoal in the South China Sea in April
  • Monday, 22 July, 2024
    Beijing and Manila strike deal to reduce tensions in South China Sea

    ‘Provisional’ agreement reached to allow Philippines to resupply military outpost on contested reef

    Chinese coast guard vessels file water cannons towards a Philippine resupply vessel
  • Sunday, 14 July, 2024
    InterviewNew Zealand
    New Zealand prime minister vows to name and shame China over spying

    Christopher Luxon, in FT interview, says he wants to raise business awareness of the threat

    Christopher Luxon
  • Thursday, 11 July, 2024
    Nato
    China rejects Nato accusations of supporting Russia’s war in Ukraine

    Beijing accuses military alliance of ‘lies and smears’ and warns it to stay out of Asia

    Chinese aircraft carrier Shandong in the Pacific Ocean south-east of Okinawa
  • Monday, 8 July, 2024
    Japan and Philippines deepen defence ties in response to China threat

    Reciprocal access agreement will allow armed forces to train and conduct military exercises in each other’s countries

    Philippine military chief General Romeo Brawner Jr, left, meets Japan Self-Defense Forces’ chief of staff General Yoshihide Yoshida on Monday
  • Tuesday, 2 July, 2024
    Beijing and Manila hold talks to defuse South China Sea tensions

    Meeting comes two weeks after China menaced Philippine boats near Indo-Pacific flashpoint

    A frame grab of video footage shows Chinese coastguard personnel aboard rigid hull inflatable boats during a confrontation with Philippine navy personnel on their respective vessels  near the Second Thomas Shoal in disputed waters of the South China Sea on June 17
  • Tuesday, 2 July, 2024
    Taiwan
    China confiscates Taiwanese fishing vessel, Taipei says

    Incident off island of Kinmen close to Chinese coast heightens tensions

    Shihyu, or Lion Islet, one of the Kinmen islands controlled by Taiwan, lies just offshore China’s Xiamen
  • Tuesday, 25 June, 2024
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    A deepening stand-off in the South China Sea

    The US is correct to support the Philippines in countering Chinese encroachment

    Members of a military detachment move around aboard the BRP Sierra Madre, run aground on the disputed Second Thomas Shoal
  • Tuesday, 25 June, 2024
    Philippines warns of region-wide conflict over South China Sea dispute

    Ambassador to Washington raises spectre of nuclear war as tensions deepen around disputed Second Thomas Shoal

    An aerial view shows the Sierra Madre on the Second Thomas Shoal in the South China Sea in March 2023
  • Friday, 21 June, 2024
    Philippines secretly reinforces ship at centre of South China Sea dispute

    The Sierra Madre has become the most dangerous flashpoint in the Indo-Pacific

    The Sierra Madre has been lodged on the disputed Second Thomas Shoal since 1999
  • Thursday, 20 June, 2024
    Philippine video shows clash with Chinese coastguard that injured soldier

    Footage released by Manila reveals sharpest escalation yet over disputed Second Thomas Shoal

    A frame grab from a video released by the Philippine military shows Chinese coastguard vessels ramming the Philippine navy’s hull inflatable boats
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