China plans to continue not just to assert but also to enforce through energy exploration and extraction its claims to disputed areas in the East China and South China Seas.
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"Japan also hopes to win over Asean in order to keep pace together against China on the East China Sea and South China Sea issues and occupy a favourable position in terms of building a political and security structure in Asia-Pacific in future, " it said.
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The J-11B is expected to be used by the Chinese navy as its frontline fighter, capable of sustained combat over the entire East China Sea and South China Sea.
Onto the coastal borders: the Taiwan Straits, the Bohai Bay, the East China Sea and the South China Sea.
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All three nations are involved in long-running maritime disputes with China over national boundaries in the East and South China Seas.
All three nations named in the sign are involved in long-running maritime disputes with China over national boundaries in the East and South China Seas.
Such an outcome would give China far greater power projection in the East and South China Seas -- through which flow much of East Asia's trade, including the bulk of Japan and South Korea's oil imports.
The arrival of the new vessel comes at a time when China is in dispute with a number of neighbouring countries over national boundaries in the East and South China Seas.
Officials said the Washington is deployed in the East China Sea and the Stennis is in the South China Sea.
The deal was a coup for China, which had shifted its military focus away from a potential Soviet land invasion, and now wanted to defend territorial claims over Taiwan and parts of the South China Sea and East China Sea.
But China's recent claims over the mineral-rich South China, Yellow and East China seas and its aggressive patrols in vital sea lanes between the Pacific and Indian oceans have sent the not-at-all subtle message that it isn't willing to share power in its backyard.
America's pivot to the Pacific reflects a growing strategic concern over China's rise as a military power, amid simmering disputes over Taiwan and contested islands in the south and east China seas.
She also boasted this week of an agreement to set up a fund to buy toxic debts from banks in South-East Asia, China, South Korea and Japan.
As part of a three-phase program to increase its strategic petroleum reserves, China is building four emergency oil-storage facilities across western China, in the east and in the south.
Artemisia grows like a weed across China and South-East Asia, but the best plants are found only in certain parts of China, such as Guangxi and Hunan, which produce most of the world's supply, and in Vietnam.
Afghanistan is bordered by Pakistan on the east and south, Iran on the west, China on the northeast, and Turkmenistan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan on the north.
The generals have excluded the world as much as it has shunned them, and have found in China, India and South-East Asia neighbours who are more than ready to deal with them.
There, islands in the South China Sea, beneath which oil and gas are thought to lie, are subject to several disputes involving China and South-East Asian neighbours.
Most of those enrolled are from outside the U.S., and 44, 000 are from East Asia, which includes China, Hong Kong, South Korea and Japan, Dr. Faust said in an interview.
It forms the backdrop to the annual East Asia Summit, held this year in Thailand from April 10th, grouping the ten South-East Asian countries with not just their partners in China, Japan and South Korea but India, Australia and New Zealand as well.
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The ten members of the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN) have held meetings with Japan, China and South Korea for seven years in a row.
China and South Korea are at odds over a part of the East China sea.
The alleged head of a multi-billion dollar smuggling ring in south-east China has confessed and now faces trial, Chinese state media say.
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