Category: Western Pacific

REPLAY: Xi Frog-Boils His New Cold War: The CCP Heats Up the Western Pacific: A CPDC Webinar

The Committee on the Present Danger: China (CPDC) hosted a webinar on perspectives on how to deal with the Chinese Communist Party’s strategy in the Western Pacific. The webinar was moderated by Frank Gaffney, founder and executive chairman of the Center for Security Policy and vice chairman of the Committee on the Present Danger: China. The…


Xi Frog-Boils His New Cold War: The CCP Heats Up the Western Pacific: A CPDC Webinar

The Committee on the Present Danger: China (CPDC) hosted a webinar on perspectives on how to deal with the Chinese Communist Party’s strategy in the Western Pacific. The webinar was moderated by Frank Gaffney, founder and executive chairman of the Center for Security Policy and vice chairman of the Committee on the Present Danger: China. The…


Will China Soon Claim the Western Pacific?

Commentary If communist China’s recent words and deeds reflect a calculated design and totalitarian intent, soon we will hear Beijing declare the entire western Pacific Ocean a sovereign Chinese sea, where Beijing rules—so-called international laws, treaties, and U.N. resolutions be damned. Defining terms helps expose Beijing’s strategic gamble, because it’s a gamble: It is unresolved…


Japan and Taiwan Claim China Sends 8-vessel Flotilla to Pacific

Japan and Taiwan said Tuesday that the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Navy dispatched the Liaoning aircraft carrier group consisting of eight vessels into the West Pacific. Japan’s Defense Ministry said in a statement (pdf) that eight Chinese naval vessels, including an aircraft carrier, passed between islands in Japan’s southern Okinawa chain on Monday. The…