Special to WorldTribune.com Satellite images show China will soon quadruple the number of airstrips it has on islands in the disputed South China Sea. Currently, China has a 2.4-kilometer (1.49-mile) long runway on Woody Island in the Paracel chain. Recent satellite photos show an airstrip more than 3 kilometers (10,000 feet) long is near completion […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Pentagon officials are planning to send U.S. warships near artificial islands built by China in the South China Sea if the White House approves, officials told the Navy Times. A U.S. defense official said that the U.S. ships would navigate within 12-nautical-mile zones around the artificial islands in the Spratly chain that China claims […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk, East-Asia-Intel.com WASHINGTON — U.S. foreign policy these days is so confusing and conflicting that it’s impossible to figure out where the U.S. is going, whether in the Middle East, Eastern Europe or Northeast Asia. The U.S., which has suffered a catastrophe in Iraq of spectacular proportions, may be headed […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk, East-Asia-Intel.com JEJU – Schoolchildren here sing a mournful song about a gigantic rock about 90 miles southwest of the island where the souls of fishermen lost at sea find their final repose. The rock cannot really be called an outcropping since it’s actually submerged several meters, but South Korea […]