Freedom of Navigation Program
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U.S. Navy and Pacific Command leaders want to ratchet up potentially provocative operations in the South China Sea by sailing more warships near the increasingly militarized man-made islands that China claims as sovereign territory, according to several Navy officials.
[ More ]The Pentagon sent a warship through the South China Sea on Tuesday in another operation meant to counter China’s territorial claims to artificial islands there, as relations between the two nations grow increasingly strained over the international dispute.
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Keeping in line with its policy to conduct operations regularly in the South China Sea, the U.S. Navy is preparing to conduct a third freedom of navigation operation (FONOP) in the South China Sea in early April, Reuters reported on Saturday.
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The author defends calls to use Freedom of Navigation Operations to reinforce navigational rights in the South China Sea but argues that the "United States can go further to sharpen its messaging and win regional support, though, by publicizing more information on its freedom of navigation activities and by building a multilateral coalition that supports them."
[ More ]U.S. Chief of Naval Operations Admiral John Richardson is prepared to defend U.S. rights to navigate in the South China Seas with an upcoming Freedom of Navigation operations, arguing that no one owns the territory China is claiming.
[ More ]The Navy is preparing to send a surface ship inside the 12-nautical-mile territorial limit China claims for its man-made island chain, an action that could take place within days but awaits final approval from the Obama administration, according to military officials who spoke to Navy Times.
[ More ]Admiral Scott Swift, commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, said in a strongly worded address in Australia the United States remained "as committed as ever" to protect freedom of navigation through the Pacific region.
[ More ]The United States is poised to send naval ships and aircraft to the South China Sea in a challenge to Beijing’s territorial claims to its rapidly-built artificial islands, according to U.S. officials.
[ More ]The author argues that the media is incorrectly characterizing routine operations as challenging China's territorial claims when they are actually being conducted to protect navigational rights under the Freedom of Navigation program.
[ More ]The US military carried out freedom of navigation operations challenging the maritime claims of China, Iran and 10 other countries last year, asserting its transit rights in defiance of efforts to restrict passage, a Pentagon report indicated yesterday.
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