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Ricketts discusses combating Communist China aggression | News

1 month ago02 mins

Nebraska U.S. Sen. Pete Ricketts participated in a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing last week, where he discussed his work to combat what he described as the illegal, coercive, aggressive, and deceptive activities of Communist China in the Indo-Pacific. Ricketts highlighted how Communist China’s maritime militia threatens undersea, critical infrastructure of regional allies. “Russian research…

These fishermen in the South China Sea get paid for their time on water — not to fish

2 months ago014 mins

In the vast, turquoise expanse of the South China Sea, hundreds of fishing boats sit idle off China’s southern coast. But the people on these vessels aren’t there to fish. “They’re there to maintain presence,” said Gregory Poling from the US Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). “Philippine surveillance shows crew members sitting around…