Posts Tagged ‘islands’

Erdogan threatens to ‘come down suddenly one night’ and attack Aegean Islands

TURKISH President Recep Tayyip Erdogan threatened to “come down suddenly one night” on Greece by attacking Aegean islands that have had military bases set up. The president’s warning on Saturday, in which he said Greece should “look at history” and see how “heavy the price” would be for alienating Ankara, is the most direct threat […]

Erdogan threatens to ‘come down suddenly one night’ and attack Aegean Islands

TURKISH President Recep Tayyip Erdogan threatened to “come down suddenly one night” on Greece by attacking Aegean islands that have had military bases set up. The president’s warning on Saturday, in which he said Greece should “look at history” and see how “heavy the price” would be for alienating Ankara, is the most direct threat […]

Taiwan Shot Down a Suspicious Drone Flying Over Its Islands Off China’s Coast

A Taiwanese military outpost on the Shi islet seen at a distance. Photo: Sam Yeh / AFP The Taiwanese military has for the first time shot down an unidentified drone off the coast of China after complaining for weeks about Chinese drone incursions. The drone flew on Thursday noon into restricted waters over the Shi islet […]

Taiwan Shot Down a Suspicious Drone Flying Over Its Islands Off China’s Coast

A Taiwanese military outpost on the Shi islet seen at a distance. Photo: Sam Yeh / AFP The Taiwanese military has for the first time shot down an unidentified drone off the coast of China after complaining for weeks about Chinese drone incursions. The drone flew on Thursday noon into restricted waters over the Shi islet […]

Taiwan Shot Down a Suspicious Drone Flying Over Its Islands Off China’s Coast

A Taiwanese military outpost on the Shi islet seen at a distance. Photo: Sam Yeh / AFP The Taiwanese military has for the first time shot down an unidentified drone off the coast of China after complaining for weeks about Chinese drone incursions. The drone flew on Thursday noon into restricted waters over the Shi islet […]

Taiwan Shot Down a Suspicious Drone Flying Over Its Islands Off China’s Coast

A Taiwanese military outpost on the Shi islet seen at a distance. Photo: Sam Yeh / AFP The Taiwanese military has for the first time shot down an unidentified drone off the coast of China after complaining for weeks about Chinese drone incursions. The drone flew on Thursday noon into restricted waters over the Shi islet […]

Taiwan Shot Down a Suspicious Drone Flying Over Its Islands Off China’s Coast

A Taiwanese military outpost on the Shi islet seen at a distance. Photo: Sam Yeh / AFP The Taiwanese military has for the first time shot down an unidentified drone off the coast of China after complaining for weeks about Chinese drone incursions. The drone flew on Thursday noon into restricted waters over the Shi islet […]

Taiwan Shot Down a Suspicious Drone Flying Over Its Islands Off China’s Coast

A Taiwanese military outpost on the Shi islet seen at a distance. Photo: Sam Yeh / AFP The Taiwanese military has for the first time shot down an unidentified drone off the coast of China after complaining for weeks about Chinese drone incursions. The drone flew on Thursday noon into restricted waters over the Shi islet […]

Solomon Islands Suspends All US Naval Visits

The Solomon Islands has informed U.S. authorities that all naval visits have been suspended until further notice following an earlier incident on Aug. 23 when a U.S. Coast Guard vessel, the Oliver Henry, was denied permission for a scheduled port call. The incident comes amid mounting concerns about Beijing’s influence in the region and Solomons […]

US Coast Guard Vessel Denied Port Call in Solomon Islands

U.S. Coast Guard vessel, the Oliver Henry, was greeted with silence when it requested permission for a scheduled port call in the Solomon Islands, forcing the crew to Papua New Guinea instead. The incident comes amid mounting concerns about the influence of the Chinese Communist Party in the region and the ongoing weakening of democratic […]

Varvitsiotis: Greece will not demilitarise its islands simply because Turkey wants this

Greece wants to engage in dialogue with Turkey but is not prepared to make concessions concerning its national sovereignty, nor will it demilitarise its islands simply because Turkey wants this, Alternate Foreign Minister Miltiadis Varvitsiotis said on SKAI television on Friday. “This dialogue must, of course, take place with rules, which are none other than… […]

Study: Most Trash Polluting Galapagos Islands Comes from Illegal Chinese Fishing Boats

Illegal Chinese fishing boats are responsible for the majority of man-made ocean waste found near or in the Galapagos Islands Marine Preserve, which is located off Ecuador’s Pacific coast, the Latin American news site Infobae reported on Monday. Source Views: 0

China-Solomon Islands Relations will Change the Balance of Powers in the Pacific

In April 2022, the world learned that China and the Solomon Islands had concluded a framework security treaty allowing China to deploy its naval forces in a small but strategically important nation in Oceania, just 2,000 km off the coast of the largest state in the South Pacific, Australia. At this point, however, the Chinese […]

Solomon Islands: A Risky Move Out From Under Western Control

The Solomon Islands are in the process of cementing into place a security pact with China. According to an alleged leaked draft, this pact includes provisions allowing the Solomon Islands to request the presence of Chinese police and military personnel to “assist in maintaining social order, protecting people’s lives and property, providing humanitarian assistance, carrying […]

US Torches Solomon Islands for Choosing China

Recent unrest in the Solomon Islands, a small Oceania nation northeast of Australia’s coasts, is a reminder of just how far the US is willing to go to penalize nations for choosing to do business with China versus obeying threats from Washington not to. Reuters in an article titled, “Explainer: -What is behind unrest in […]

Backing Horses: Australia’s Solomon Islands Intervention

The history of humanitarian or policing missions is a history of taking sides, disruptive partiality and the forfeiture of the very object powers claim when intervening in another country.  Things become particularly absurd when the individual or government pleading for such help to an outside force is struggling to survive yet making grand statements about […]

Clean-Up Begins in Solomon Islands After Rioting

MELBOURNE—Soldiers and police from Australia and Papua New Guinea were helping to restore calm in the Solomon Islands as clean-up operations started, after several days of rioting left three dead and led to dozens of arrests, local media reported. The Solomon Star newspaper said Australian soldiers and police and troops from Papua New Guinea had […]

Australia Sends Military to Solomon Islands as Rioters Torch Government Buildings

    A hut next to the Parliament building in the Solomon Islands capital, Honiara, burns after being set on fire by protesters on Wednesday. Social unrest rocked the capital of the Solomon Islands for the second day as anti-government demonstrators defied lockdown orders and burned government buildings. A lockdown was declared Wednesday after more […]

Solomon Islands Tension

Three bodies were found in a burnt out building in Honiara amid this week’s violence in the capital of the Solomon Islands, Australian media reported. Authorities had put a curfew in place on Friday night in an attempt to stem the unrest and the situation seemed to be calmer on Saturday. But the government showed […]

Solomon Islands Leader Blames Foreign Powers Amid Unrest

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare on Friday blamed foreign interference over his government’s decision to switch alliances from Taiwan to Beijing for anti-government protests, arson and looting that have ravaged the capital Honiara in recent days. But critics also blamed the unrest on complaints of a lack of government services […]

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