CHINA-SOUTH CHINA SEA: CHINA ANNOUNCES MILITARY EXERCISES IN SOUTH CHINA SEA
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As the US aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt entered the South China Sea on January 23, to promote the "freedom of the seas," China announced (January 29) that it will conduct military exercises in the South China Sea this week. A notice issued by China's Maritime Safety Administration prohibited entry into a portion of waters in the Gulf of Tonkin to the west of the Leizhou Peninsula in southwestern China from January 27 to January 30 but provided no details on when the drills would take place or at what scale. The announcement of the drills in the Gulf of Tonkin, just east of Vietnam, came as the Southeast Asian country opened a key Communist Party congress in Hanoi.
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