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US & China Square Off Over South China Sea
Topic Started: Jul 12 2012, 01:32 PM (27,737 Views)
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Two U.S. B-52 skirt Chinese-controlled man-made island in the South China Sea sparking Chinese protest
Dec 19 2015 -
By David Cenciotti

On Dec. 10, two U.S. Air Force B-52 strategic bombers on a routine long-range mission flew within 12 nautical miles (the standard boundary of the territorial waters) of one of the seven Chinese man-made islands in the South China Sea, sparking China’s protests.

Although Washington has not taken an official stance on sovereignty claims surrounding the islands it does maintain that China’s new islands do not enjoy the traditional 12NM territorial limit. However, according to the Pentagon, the aircraft were not flying a so-called “freedom of navigation” mission (a pre-planned navigation used to assert U.S. rights to “innocent passage” in or close to other nation’s territorial waters): one of the aircraft flew within 2 miles of an artificial island along unintentional route. Interesting, since “navigation errors” are a bit surprising on long-range bombers equipped with redundant GPS, INS systems that should make their navigation quite accurate.

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Everything You Wanted to Know About the USS Lassen's FONOP in the South China Sea

U.S. Defense Secretary Ashton Carter finally comes out with a comprehensive account of the USS Lassen‘s FONOP.


By Ankit Panda
January 06, 2016

56 days. That’s how long it took for a senior U.S. government official to come out on the record and clarify the precise nature of the October 27 freedom of navigation operation undertaken by the USS Lassen in the South China Sea. The USNI News, a project of the U.S. Naval Institute, acquired and posted a letter dated December 22, 2015 from U.S. Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter to Sen. John McCain (R-Az.) outlining the Lassen‘s mission. As reports in The Diplomat and elsewhere had noted back in October and early November, much of what was available publicly on the Lassen‘s operation was based on anonymously sourced leaks from within the U.S. Department of Defense – some of which turned out to be inaccurate – and ambiguous statements by Pentagon spokespeople. Carter’s letter, however, finally sets the record straight, once and for all.

I’ve highlighted specific sections of interest below for Diplomat readers, but the whole letter is available at USNI News’ website and is provided below as well:

On October 27, 2015, the U.S. Navy destroyer USS Lassen (DDG-82) conducted a FONOP in the South China Sea by transiting inside 12 nautical miles of five maritime features in the Spratly Islands — Subi Reef, Northeast Cay, Southwest Cay, South Reef, and Sandy Cay — which are claimed by China, Taiwan, Vietnam, and the Philippines. No claimants were notified prior to the transit, which is consistent with our normal processes and with international law.

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US forces to continue flying, sailing in South China Sea

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Moscow – US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter has stated that Beijing is taking steps which will lead to international isolation amid ongoing tensions over disputed territories in the South China Sea.

The comment by the Pentagon top official was made on Friday at the World Economic Forum in Davos. Carter offered that the US is not seeking an excuse for a clash with China, but noted that the American military will keep operating in the region.

“I am not one of those people who believe that conflict between China and the US is inevitable. It is certainly not desirable and I don’t think it is likely,” he said, adding that American forces, “will fly, sail and operate whatever international law permits in the South China Sea.”

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Unplanned Encounters in the South China Sea: Under Control?

There’s some good news in the South China Sea, despite rising tensions over disputed maritime claims.


By Ankit Panda
January 25, 2016

U.S. Chief of Naval Operations Admiral John Richardson and his Chinese counterpart Admiral Wu Shengli regularly confer via teleconference to share their views on how the U.S. and Chinese navies are progressing in their military-to-military contacts. Last week, both officials held a two hour conference in which they expressed their satisfaction with a mechanism their two countries established in spring 2014 to prevent miscalculations and unanticipated escalations of encounters at sea. The so-called Code for Unplanned Encounters at Sea (CUES) between the United States and China governs communications protocols for U.S. and Chinese naval crews and is a proving to be a useful mechanism between the two navies–certainly in the South China Sea.

Wu had originally called CUES a “milestone document” when it was concluded, at the end of the biennial Western Pacific Naval Symposium (WPNS) in Qingdao, China in 2014. CUES was unanimously approved by the 25 participating countries in the 2014 WPNS after having been originally proposed in the early 2000s. (China had originally shown some trepidation over the use of the word “code” in the document’s title, suggesting legal force.) As my colleague Shannon Tiezzi explained at the time, CUES “is a non-binding, voluntary agreement to follow certain set procedures for communicating with other military forces encountered at sea or in the air.”

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Pentagon: US Warship Sails by Island Claimed by China
Agence France-Presse 12:14 p.m. EST January 30, 2016


WASHINGTON — A US warship sailed within 12 nautical miles of a disputed island in the South China Sea Saturday to assert freedom of navigation, drawing a protest from Beijing, officials said.

"We conducted a freedom of navigation operation in the South China Sea earlier tonight," Pentagon spokesman Jeff Davis said in a statement.

Davis said the guided missile destroyer USS Curtis Wilbur made the "innocent passage" off Triton Island in the Paracel island chain, which is claimed by China, Taiwan and Vietnam.

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China condemns US for sending warship near island | philstar - February 1, 2016
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The missile destroyer USS Curtis Wilbur sailed within 12 nautical miles (22 kilometers) of Triton Island in the Paracel chain “to challenge excessive maritime claims of parties that claim the Paracel Islands,” without notifying the three claimants beforehand, Defense Department spokesman Mark Wright said Saturday in Washington.

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China responded swiftly. Defense Ministry spokesman Yang Yujun issued a statement saying the US action “severely violated Chinese law, sabotaged the peace, security and good order of the waters, and undermined the region’s peace and stability,” according to the official Xinhua news agency.

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He said that the US operation was “very unprofessional and irresponsible for the safety of the troops of both sides, and may cause extremely dangerous consequences.” Chinese armed forces will take whatever measures “necessary to safeguard China’s sovereignty and security, no matter what provocations the US side may take,” Yang said. AP

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We Will Find 'Creative Ways' to Punish You Over South China Sea, US Tells Beijing
By VICE News

February 18, 2016


The Permanent Court of Arbitration in the Hague is due to make a decision later this year on China's dispute with the Philippines over the territory- but Beijing rejects its authority, even though it has ratified the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea on which the case is based.

Amy Searight, US deputy assistant secretary of defense for South and Southeast Asia, said the US, the EU, and allies like Australia, Japan, and South Korea must be ready to make clear that the court's ruling must be binding and that there would be costs to China for not respecting it if it lost the case.

"We need to be ready to be very loud and vocal, in harmony together, standing behind the Philippines and the rest of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) claimants to say that this is international law, this is incredibly important, it is binding on all parties," she told a seminar at Washington's Center for Strategic and International Studies.

Searight said the message to China, if it did not respect a negative ruling, should be, "we will hold you accountable."

"Certainly, reputational cost is at stake, but we can think of other creative ways to perhaps impose costs as well," she said without elaborating.


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US flights to continue despite missiles in South China Sea – 7th Fleet chief
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February 23, 2016

SYDNEY, Australia – The commander of the US Navy’s 7th Fleet said Monday that he is wary of the situation in the South China Sea being painted as a battle between the United States and China, but added the presence of a Chinese missile system on a disputed island will not stop the US military from flying over the region.

US Navy Vice Admiral Joseph Aucoin’s comments come a week after it was revealed that Beijing had deployed surface-to-air missiles on an island in the fiercely contested region. The US said the presence of missiles provided increasing evidence of militarization of the area by China.

China subsequently accused the US of militarizing the region, saying patrols by US Navy vessels and military aircraft had escalated tensions and raised concerns about stability in the area.

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