2026-05-25 | SCSPI
In 2025, non-US extra-regional countries continued to expand their military presence in the Western Pacific, undertaking activities such as reconnaissance patrols, Taiwan Strait transits, forward deployments, drills and exercises, as well as port calls. The UK and France deployed carrier strike groups (CSGs) to the region, and conducted joint drills with allies like the US and Japan. Australia performed multiple declaratory operations in the name of defending “freedom of navigation” in the South China Sea and participated in multilateral maritime cooperation activities led by the Philippines. Additionally, countries such as Canada, New Zealand, and India actively took part in multinational patrols and exercises.
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.
2019-06-16 | 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...
2019-06-01 | BY SCSPI
CONTENT
I. Intensive FONOPS
II. Increasing Deployment of Strategic Weapons
III. More Targeted Military Exercises and Cooperations
IV. Intensive...
PREFACE
Since 2018, the situations of the South China Sea, in general, have continued to ease. Disputes have been well under control, and no major...
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