MILITARY POSTURE

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...
2019-06-16 | BY Chen Yong
Following the end of the war on terrorism, the US has shifted the focus of its national security strategy back to great-power competition and now considers China the most significant threat. Then, it becomes the top priority of US force’s global strategy to reinforce deployment in the South China Sea and surrounding areas. US strategy documents, such as the National Security Strategy 2017, the...
2019-06-01 | BY SCSPI
CONTENT I. Intensive FONOPS II. Increasing Deployment of Strategic Weapons III. More Targeted Military Exercises and Cooperations IV. Intensive and All-dimensional Reconnaissance Operations V. Urging Allies and Partners to Join Hands to Pressure China VI. Advocating war rhetoric and showing the motive to pulling chestnuts from the fire INTRODUCTION In 2018, the U.S. armed forces...