By Thai Newsroom Reporters THE PHILIPPINES PLANS TO procure the first batch of newly-built submarines in face of China’s increased threat to the island republic’s maritime territorial integrity, specifically regarding sustained tensions in the South China Sea. The Philippine navy has resolved to upgrade its operational capabilities in regard to national maritime interests and
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Australia at centre of Indo-Pacific alliances to counter China
By Reuters and published by Swissinfo.ch Sydney – Australia finds itself as the common link in a new mesh of global alliances centred on the Indo-Pacific that are all but in name aimed at countering China’s rising military power and economic clout. Canberra’s 70-year-old defence alliance with Washington already commits Australia to act in response
Read moreNavy withdraws Chinese subs purchase plan from agenda
By Thai Newsroom Reporters NAVY CHIEF ADM Chatchai Srivorakhan today (July 19) withdrew the navy’s purchase plan for two Chinese submarines from the House Budget Committee’s agenda. In the face of social criticism over the navy’s planned procurement of two Yuan-class S26T subs whereas responses to the sustained pandemic situation need sizeable funding, the
Read moreSocial media uproar over plan to buy 2 to 3 more submarines
THERE is heavy criticism on Thai social media today (July 17) after news spread that the Royal Thai Navy (RTN) has proposed to buy to two to three more submarines but later a spokesman came out to clarify that it is just performing its duty in submitting this purchase plan, Thai Rath newspaper said
Read morePM postpones purchase of two additional subs by a year
PRIME Minister and Defence Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha held internal discussions with the navy to postpone the heavily-criticized purchase of the second and third submarines from China by another year, Thai Rath newspaper reported this morning (August 31, 2020). Mr. Anucha Burapachaisri, spokesman of the Prime Minister’s office, said Gen. Prayut has assigned the navy to
Read moreFEATURE: Southeast Asian navies in race for submarines
By Out-crowd THAILAND, Vietnam, Indonesia and Singapore have stood out among all other countries in the Southeast Asian region in terms of upgraded naval firepower. They do not only have lengthy shores of the South China Sea and archipelagos but abundant natural resources such as oil, natural gas and minerals undersea. That obviously poses
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