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March 24 , 2017
  • Bloomberg：South China Sea Reefs Need Defending, China Premier Li Says
    Bloomberg reports: "China needs military equipment on reclaimed reefs in the South China Sea to defend its trade interests in the region, Premier Li Keqiang said, while denying his nation is militarizing the disputed waters. 'China's facilities on Chinese islands and reefs are primarily for civilian purposes,' Li said in a news conference on Friday in Canberra with Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull. 'Even if there is a certain amount of defense equipment or facilities, it is for maintaining freedom of navigation and overflight.' Li's comments were made during his sole briefing during a five-day visit to Australia. He told lawmakers and business leaders on Thursday that Australia doesn't need to take sides between China, its largest trading partner, and main strategic ally the U.S. While Australia has been careful not to offend China, which took 31 percent of its merchandise exports in the 12 months to July, it's been uneasy about Beijing's military build-up in the South China Sea, which contains some of the world's busiest naval trading routes...Geoff Raby, a former Australian ambassador to China who now runs his own consultancy, told Bloomberg Television on Friday that tensions over the South China Sea had 'put the Australian government in a terribly tight situation. On the one hand, we have huge commercial and economic interests in China,' Raby said. 'The Australian economic future is in China. On the other hand, our security is with the U.S. for our alliance arrangements.' "
  • The Hill：Rex Tillerson can raise State's profile by starting with China
    The Hill comments: "President Trump has proposed a budget that makes deep cuts to the State Department...[However,] they must also realize, uncomfortably, that they are not immune from either budget cuts, or from changes in work rules that could significantly erode the job security of foreign service officers. Fortunately, there are ways for the department to earn the president's trust, and the upcoming summit between Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping represents a likely starting point. Chinese leaders often express their foreign policies in a bewildering series of hints, signals, symbolic actions, and circumlocutions. Extreme displeasure could be expressed by the omission of complimentary words in an editorial in a government publication. Thus, Chinese leaders are often uncertain how to respond to the much more direct and blunt language of American diplomacy. The subtle language of diplomacy could be used to express Trump's foreign policy shifts, and the specific words and actions of that language are things that Trump could learn from a willing State Department. Indeed, tasking the State Department to come up with a Chinese-like set of communications to express the president's priorities would serve as a useful test of the department's loyalty, and therefore of its usefulness to the current administration."
  • Reuters：China says in touch with Philippines about naval visit
    Reuters reports: "China said on Friday it was in touch with the Philippines about the possible visit of a Chinese naval ship to the country. Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said on Thursday he had invited China to send a battleship to visit. His overtures toward a country long regarded by Manila as a maritime aggressor have marked an astonishing foreign policy shake-up, and Duterte made a landmark visit to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping last year. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said that military exchanges between the two countries were an important part of their relations. 'Following the improvement in bilateral relations, China is willing to willing to strengthen exchanges and cooperation with the Philippines in the relevant area,' Hua told a daily news briefing, when asked if the Chinese navy would visit. 'As for a Chinese naval ship visiting the Philippines, according to what I understand the relevant sides in both countries are currently in communication about this,' she added, without elaborating...China has dismissed that as 'not true'."
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