MILITARY POSTURE
2020-08-04 | BY SCSPI
It is worth noting that the close-in reconnaissance of the US military has gradually revealed its intention to increase political and military pressure.
2020-06-30 | BY Hu Bo
It is common knowledge that the army is, of course, prepared for war and other worst-case scenario. However, the regional situation will only be backed into a corner if the U.S. military keeps giving undue prominence to great power competition in the South China Sea.
2020-03-28 | BY SCSPI
In 2019, the US armed forces continued to carry out intensive military activities in the South China Sea, with their strategic platforms coming in and out of the region frequently, sea and air reconnaissance forces conducting various operations vigorously, the freedom of navigation operations (FONOPs) near China’s stationed islands and reefs in the South China Sea increasing rapidly, and military diplomacy intensifying unprecedentedly. Though the US has become slightly more prudent in its words and deeds with regard to the military conflicts with China in the South China Sea, its operations in this region, in terms of both scale and intensity, have been significantly reinforced, compared to those in 2018. With the continual military exercises and various drills of the US armed forces and the rushing deployment of forces and platforms in the South China Sea, the region has become a front line of the maritime strategic competition between China and the US.
2020-01-30 | BY SCSPI
On January 25, Littoral Combat Ship USS Montgomery (LCS-8) conducted the first FONOP in the South China Sea in 2020. The closest it approached Fiery Cross Reef was reckoned at 8.5 nautical miles.
2019-12-27 | BY SCSPI
In 2019, the US military substantially strengthened the contents and intensity of military exercises in the South China Sea and its neighboring areas, and pressed ahead with over 100 reinforced joint military exercises and drills with countries surrounding the South China Sea and extra-regional powers.
2019-11-19 | BY SCSPI
The deployment of LCSs equipped with advanced anti-ship weapons to the South China Sea indirectly indicates a subtle change in the US military’s scheme in the South China Sea, that is, previous reconnaissance, deterrence, and command of the situation have turned into implementing military strikes and achieving better striking performance.
2019-09-16 | BY SCSPI
On September 13th 2019, the USS Wayne E. Meyer (DDG-108) intruded into waters around the Paracel Islands(Xisha Islands) ,which constitutes a sixth island or reef-intrusive FONOP by U.S naval warships in the South China Sea since 2019, and also the second time in a month that USS Wayne E. Meyer conducted such operation in South China Sea.
2019-09-05 | BY SCSPI
On the surface, the USCG features weaker firepower and is thus helpful in neutralizing sensitivity. In effect, however, it is more likely to trigger further escalation of tensions.
2019-08-29 | BY Hu Bo
These six kinds of military operations themselves in the South China Sea are not news and not surprising, but, the abnormal increase in their frequency, intensity, and pertinence to China in recent years, deserves intensive attention.
2019-06-16 | BY Chen Xiangmiao, Jiang Yanchuan
Since 2019, the “Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative” (AMTI) at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), a US think tank, has repeatedly released reports alleging that since mid-2018, China’s rallying maritime militia is aimed at monitoring or even blocking the Philippines’ construction operations in Thitu Island and other islands and reefs. This has raised widespread...