The South China Sea may be lost forever to China. Assuming the Chinese regime listens to the ruling by the international UN tribunal in the Hague, which is probably pretty unlikely. But how has China been dealing since the Hague Tribunal ruling? With five stages of grief.
“The US [will] pay a cost it cannot stand if it intervenes in the South China Sea,” according to the mouth piece of the Chinese Communist Party. China is performing military drills in the South China Sea as a UN-backed tribunal in the Hague is set to rule on a territorial dispute between China and the Philippines.
The USGS has estimated that the Arctic regions contain around 130b barrels of oil and 1660t cubic feet of gas—22% of the world’s undiscovered hydrocarbon resources.
A seemingly innocent announcement—the development of a large island in the scenic Far East with cooperation of the two neighboring countries Russia and China—brought reactions of disgust from Chinese netizens.
The Indian government is making efforts to increase cooperation with Vietnam, a partnership that could rebalance the axis of power in Asia away from China.
At the tail end of an international security dialogue in Singapore recently, a top Chinese military propagandist took the opportunity of having the last word.