The name of the ship has already been criticised in China because it shares its name with an imperial warship that bombed Shanghai in the 1930s.
Japan’s decision to upgrade one of its helicopter carriers to its first aircraft carrier warship has rattled China big time. Chinese foreign ministry in a statement has cautioned Tokyo against violating the country’s post-war pacifist constitution. Much to China’s chagrin, Japan has upgraded the helicopter carrier named Kaga. It has raised questions in Beijing because a former ship with the same name was used by Japan to bomb Shanghai.
The China Coast Guard said on Friday it patrolled the "territorial waters" of Diaoyu Islands, also known in Japan as the Senkaku Islands, in the East China Sea. Japan Coast Guard said in a separate bulletin that its patrol boats had asked four Chinese coast guard vessels to leave "our
Japan's Kishida Slams China In Address To Congress Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida delivered an address to Congress on Thursday and declared China the "greatest strategic challenge" facing the world. "Close coordination between Japan and the US is required more than ever to ensure that deterrence that our alliance provides remains credible and resilient," Kishida said, according to The South China Morning Post. Japanese Prime Minister...
President Joe Biden held a summit with Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos, Jr., and Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio.
Ferdinand Marcos Jr says building trilateral ties vital, after the three countries criticise China’s ‘dangerous and aggressive behaviour’ in the regionA cooperation agreement by the Philippines, the United States and Japan will change the dynamic in the South China Sea and the region, the Philippine president has said, while seeking to assure China it was not a target.“I think the trilateral agreement is extremely important,” Ferdinand Marcos Jr told a press conference in Washington on Friday, a...
Marcos says the trilateral summit was 'not against any country' but had focused on deepening economic and security relations among Manila, Washington, and Tokyo
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A NASA mission testing a new way of navigating our solar system is ready to hoist its sail into space—not to catch the wind, but the propulsive power of sunlight. The Advanced Composite Solar Sail System is targeting launch on Tuesday, April 23 (Wednesday, April 24 in New Zealand) aboard a Rocket Lab Electron rocket from the company's Launch Complex 1 on the Mahia Peninsula of New Zealand.
A parliamentary researcher from Edinburgh has been charged with spying for China along with another man. Christopher Cash, 29, who attended George Watson’s College, was director of a policy group on Beijing co-founded by security minister Tom Tugendhat. He was also employed as a researcher by Alicia Kearns, chairwoman of the Commons foreign affairs committee. Cash, whose address is listed on official documents as Whitechapel, London, was arrested in Edinburgh last year and has now been charged...