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May 03 , 2017
  • The New York Times：Trump's Turn Toward China Curtails Navy Patrols in Disputed Zones
    The New York Times reports: "Six weeks ago, the United States Pacific Command requested permission from senior American officials for a United States warship to sail within 12 nautical miles of Scarborough Shoal, a disputed reef in the South China Sea that is claimed by the Philippines and China. The Navy had good reason to think the request would be granted...the Pacific Command request — and two others by the Navy in February — was turned down by top Pentagon officials before it even made it to President Trump's desk. More than 100 days into the Trump presidency, no American Navy ship has gone within 12 miles of any of the disputed islands in the South China Sea, Defense Department officials said. The decision not to challenge China's territorial claims represents a remarkable deference toward Beijing from an administration that is increasingly turning toward President Xi Jinping for help amid the escalating crisis in the Korean Peninsula...Robert Daly, the director of the Kissinger Institute on China and the United States at the Wilson Center, said of the Navy excursions, officially known as freedom of navigation operations, or Fonops: 'All of the language, combined with the fact that the Republican foreign policy establishment had been critical of Obama for not carrying out enough Fonops, means there was a wide expectation that Trump would put down a marker early. And that hasn't happened.' "
  • Forbes：China Or Trump: Who The Philippine President Will Pick As His Chief Ally
    Forbes comments: "Eight months ago Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte called his former American counterpart Barack Obama a son of a whore. Throughout much of last year, after his June 30 inauguration, the notoriously outspoken Duterte told the United States in just slightly less coarse language to quit helping his Southeast Asian country with military aid. He resented Washington, a former colonizer of the Philippines, for criticizing his deadly anti-drug campaign. Now look who current U.S. President Donald Trump just invited to the White House. Duterte hasn't accepted the invitation and has hinted he may pass. He's busily making friends with China...China's growing influence in the Philippines – something that Duterte's predecessors strongly resisted – makes it hard if not impossible for a U.S. president to stick the archipelago in its back pocket again...'I think for both sides, China and the U.S., as long as the Philippines is not a source of challenges for either of them, they will be fine,' says Jay Batongbacal, director of the Institute for Maritime Affairs and Law of the Sea at the University of the Philippines."
  • The Washington Post：UN rights envoy was followed in China, sources intimidated
    The Washington Post reports: "A U.N. representative on human rights said that he was followed by security officers in disguise during an official trip to China and that some activists he met with may have suffered intimidation and retaliation. Philip Alston, the U.N. special rapporteur for extreme poverty and human rights, said the Chinese government's conduct was at odds with the need for U.N. experts to have the freedom to assess situations and preserve the confidentiality of sources...[The difficulties] include warnings by the Chinese government not to make direct contact with civil society organizations to arrange meetings, requests for full details of any private meetings and security officers posing as private citizens regularly following Alston. The space for civil society has been curtailed dramatically under President Xi Jinping...Alston's report said that the government warned both him and individuals it considered 'sensitive' not to meet with each other, and one meeting was prevented when a person was taken into custody for a couple of hours. Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said Wednesday that he couldn't comment on the report as he hadn't seen it. 'What I can say is that Chinese authorities actively supported and coordinated his visit to China last year, making sure it was conducted smoothly. He met with the Chinese people he wanted to meet,' Geng said. He added that the Chinese representative at the Human Rights Council would present China's position when the report comes before it in June."
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