...and at a time of changing leadership some forces in the Chinese system are pushing for greater assertiveness in the South China Sea and elsewhere. Even absent some new crisis, both Leon Panetta and Bob Gates have warned of the catastrophic consequences...
...program," he said, "but one long cruise will more than pay for it." A 30-day cruise to South Pacific and the South China Sea last spring would have cost the traveler about $9,000 plus a $1,000 airline ticket to Singapore where he picked...
...strange locution. American citizenship is a badge of freedom so deeply and universally coveted that people from the South China Sea to the Florida Straits take to perilous boats in the distant hope of achieving it. American citizenship is a license...
...and helped bring on catastrophe: genocide in Cambodia, re-education camps in South Vietnam, boat people in the South China Sea. And if it wasn't human rights or clean government (a supposed virtue of communists like Ho and Mao), there...
...northwest of Manila. It had weakened slightly, with gusts of up to 86 mph, as it moved northwest at 7 mph over the South China Sea, the weather bureau said. Most of those who died were either buried in landslides or drowned, officials said...
...It had been downgraded to a tropical depression, but it is expected to gain strength while it blows across the South China Sea, the weather bureau said. The Office of Civil Defense said 12 people have died, at least four of them in landslides...
...On Sunday, a U.S. Navy surveillance plane collided with a Chinese fighter jet sent to intercept it over the South China Sea and made an emergency landing in China. The Chinese government said the fighter crashed and its pilot was missing...
...on a tropical Chinese island. China's Foreign Ministry called for an apology for the collision Sunday over the South China Sea, which Beijing blames on the United States. A ministry spokesman also insisted China had the right to board the...
...been missing since he bailed out of his F-8 fighter jet after a collision Sunday with a U.S. spy plane over the South China Sea. Yet in spite of the scant information, Wang lies close to the heart of China's response to the midair crash and...
...after a collision with a Chinese fighter jet over the South China Sea. Photos Weeks of compromise had led American officials...since a collision with a Chinese fighter jet over the South China Sea forced them to take their Navy EP-3E surveillance...
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