China risks entering a geopolitical minefield as it confronts the Philippines over Scarborough Shoal (Huangyan Dao), a group of disputed reefs and islets in the South China Sea. Tempers were clearly fraying as the maritime …
Read MoreOp-Ed: To Understand China-Philippines Dispute, Look to Japan and Korea's Tussle
[Note: The following is a Tea Leaf Nation op-ed, and does not necessarily represent the opinions of the editors.] The recent dispute over “illegal fishing” off the Scarborough Shoal between China and the Philippines calls …
Read MoreChinese Netizens Say Time To "Clean Up" Foreign "Trash"
Foreigners, watch out. Beijing police have sent a shot across the bow of the city’s estimated 120,000 non-Chinese residents, some of whom are in the country illegally. After a video of a British man apparently …
Read MoreVoices — International Military History, In One Paragraph
Writing on Sina Weibo, China’s Twitter, in response to recent discussion of the mainland’s brewing conflict with the Philippines over the Huangyan Islands, user @有子如虎 recently tweeted his summary of military history this way: “I …
Read MoreBest Caption Ever – China v. The Philippines
Beat this, New York Times. This new caption on an Internet oldie has helped thousands of Chinese netizens understand the current saber-rattling between China and the Philippines over a barren rock in the South China Sea. …
Read MoreChinese Netizens To Government: Don't Back Down From Philippines
There’s no love lost between China and its American-allied neighbor, the Philippines. The two have been at odds for a month since tensions arose in the reputedly oil-rich Scarborough Shoal (in Chinese, the Huangyan Islands, …
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