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China Passes Law Allowing Coastguard to Use Force Against Foreign Vessels
ByMichael Armstrong January 23, 2021

China passed a new law Friday granting the China Coast Guard (CCG) more leeway in asserting the nation’s claims in the contested South China Sea and authorizing the use of force against foreign vessels. The National People’s Congress passed the Coast Guard Law of the People’s Republic of China to help the CCG defend China’s “national sovereignty,…

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Make No Mistake, China Really Does Want to Dominate the Pacific
ByMichael Armstrong March 9, 2020

Can Beijing be stopped? In this decade, the United States Navy may be displaced as the most formidable maritime presence in the Pacific Ocean. China is determined to challenge America’s ability to project military power forward into the Western Pacific. It seeks to undermine the U.S. capability of standing with its allies and deterring China…

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