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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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One year into its two-year term as chair of the Arctic council, the U.S. is still struggling to achieve its goals of promoting Arctic ocean safety, security and stewardship, improving economic and living conditions in the Arctic and addressing the impacts of climate change.
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In two recent international joint statements, India has taken slightly different positions on the biggest point of international conflict that is about to come to a head in the coming days, leading to some confusion.
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The U.S. has lost a critical satellite from the Defense Meterological Satellite Program at a time when the Arctic, and other remote regions, are seeing rapid changes and scientists badly need these instruments to track them.
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The U.S. should consider bilateral discussions with China to help it save face in the South China Seas, which while could be politically risky it "will help China escape the blind alley its imprudent policies have steered it toward" and de-escalate tensions in the region.
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The author considers a number of confidence building measures between the U.S. and China that would help de-escalate tensions.
[ More ]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 International Seabed Authority has signed its first exploration contract for seabed mining for 2016. The deal was signed with the U.K. Seabed Resources Limited (UKSRL) and involves a 15-year contract for the exploration of polymetallic nodules in the eastern part of the Clarion-Clipperton Fracture Zone in the Pacific Ocean west of Mexico.
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The Obama administration is reworking its plan to open the southern Atlantic Coast to offshore oil exploration because of strong opposition from the Pentagon, which says the activity could hurt military maneuvers and interfere with missile tests the Navy relies on to protect the coast.
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Singapore has suggested the expansion of a key naval protocol to defuse tensions in the South China Sea, the country’s new foreign minister said yesterday on the final day of his maiden voyage to China.
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