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Beijing has a devastating plan to force the world out of the East and South China Seas — and it could cost the US 10,000 lives.

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Through China says it wants to promote peace

CHINA’S newest warplane, the J-20 stealth fighter, will make its first public flight at the Zhuhai Air Show, its manufacturer announced Monday, as Beijing flexes its long-range military muscles.

PHILIPPINE President Rodrigo Duterte has announced his “separation” from the United States, declaring he has realigned with China as the two agreed to resolve their South China Sea dispute through talks.

AUSTRALIA faces an increasing challenge as tensions escalate between China and the United States over the Asia-Pacific region.

JAPAN has announced its intention to step up its activity in the disputed South China Sea region.

A FLURRY of fresh military exercises is highlighting rising tensions in the Asia Pacific, with China and Russia today joining forces to practice seizing islands and hunting submarines.

The meeting will follow the conclusion of the two-day G20 summit that started on Sunday in the eastern Chinese city of Hangzhou.

CHINA could match the military might of the US in a decade and any conflict between them would rock the entire world economy.

BEIJING has reacted angrily to a US think-tank’s prediction that any war would inflict heavy losses on China, vowing that that the US and its allies ‘would suffer more’.

A Chinese woman visiting Vietnam over the weekend realised the border official letting her through had scribbled "f**k you" on two pages of her passport, Chinese papers are reporting.

A DISAPPOINTED China has begun what will be regular air patrols over contested waters and cut off access to part of the region for military drills.

As the Hague Tribunal rejected China’s claims to “historic rights” in the South China Sea, Beijing announced the commissioning of its fourth guided-missile destroyer and warned it could set up an air defense zone over the disputed area.

A LINE in the sand was crossed in February this year. Satellite photographs revealed China had stationed surface-to-air missiles on Woody Island, one of dozens of specks in the sea that have become the focus of increasingly tense territorial disputes.

China has caused irreparable harm to the ecosystem of the Spratly Islands and breached the Philippines' sovereign rights, the Hague Tribunal has ruled.

Beijing must prepare to make the US “pay a cost it can’t stand” if it intervenes in the South China Sea dispute by force, a state newspaper editorial has warned, days before a court at The Hague rules on the territorial row between China and the Philippines.

Beijing is not trying to make trouble in the South China Sea, but has “no fear” of maritime disputes with other governments in the region, a top Chinese naval officer says.

Group of Seven (G7) leaders agreed on Thursday on the need to send a strong message on maritime claims in the western Pacific