South Korea's decision to comply with the U.S. Pivot-to-Asia strategy by deploying the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system may help the government draw public attention on security threats, experts here said.
South Korea yesterday announced the site where a US Thaad anti-missile defence unit will be deployed against DPRK's missile and nuclear threats.
The tribunal issued its final award on Tuesday. China has refused to participate in the proceedings, reiterating that the tribunal has no jurisdiction over the case. World analysts also react to South China Sea ruling.
Following is the full text of a statement by the Foreign Affairs Committee of China's top legislature, National People's Congress, issued on Thursday, on the award of the arbitral tribunal in the South China Sea arbitration established at the unilateral request of the Philippines.
South Korea's defense ministry on Wednesday announced an agreement with the United States to deploy the U.S. missile defense system, called Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD), in its southeastern region despite continued oppositions from neighboring countries.
Chinese Defense Minister Chang Wanquan said Wednesday China will not accept any proposition or action based on the decision made Tuesday by the South China Sea arbitral tribunal.
China is an important force for maintaining peace and stability in the South China Sea, said a white paper issued on Wednesday.
The special representative of the UN secretary-general for South Sudan, Ellen Margrethe Loj, strongly urged all parties to adhere to a ceasefire called by both President Salva Kiir and Vice President Riek Machar in South Sudan' s capital Juba.
The tribunal handling the South China Sea arbitration case unilaterally initiated by the former Philippine government issued its final award on Tuesday, sweepingly siding with Manila's cunningly packaged claims.
Taiwan's major political parties on Tuesday refused to accept the award in the South China Sea arbitration and called for safeguarding China's sovereignty.
The award of an arbitral tribunal in the South China Sea arbitration established at the request of the Philippines will resolve nothing and merely stir regional tension, an expert here said Tuesday.
Much like a poisoned tree, which will never bear good fruit, the award issued in the South China Sea arbitration was contaminated from the start.
Chinese President Xi Jinping said China will not accept any proposition or action based on the decision Tuesday by the South China Sea arbitral tribunal.
Five months after Seoul shut down a jointly run industrial park in DPRK, South Korean factory owners are still waging a defiant campaign to reopen what was the last major symbol of inter-Korean cooperation.
China has strongly condemned the attack in South Sudan's capital on Sunday that killed two Chinese peacekeepers and wounded five others, and it called on rival factions in the country to cease fire immediately.
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) on Monday denounced the United States for making the situation on the Korean Peninsula "extremely tense" through a series of moves, and vowed to take stronger countermeasures to defend the country.
Two Chinese UN peacekeepers were killed in renewed fighting between South Sudan's rival army factions in capital Juba, a UN official confirmed to Xinhua on Monday.
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