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2-Jun-13 World View -- China blasts Philippines over stranded warship from 1999

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2-Jun-13 World View -- China blasts Philippines over stranded warship from 1999

Police crackdown in Turkey sparks huge anti-government rallies

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Police crackdown in Turkey sparks huge anti-government rallies
China blasts Philippines over stranded warship from 1999
PLA: China faces increasing 'strategic pressure' in Asia

Police crackdown in Turkey sparks huge anti-government rallies

Thousands of protesters occupy Gezi Park in Istanbul (Zaman)

Thousands of protesters occupy Gezi Park in Istanbul (Zaman)

A simple protest of plans to turn Gezi Park in Istanbul, Turkey, into a shopping center began peacefully on Tuesday with 50 activist neighbors of the park. They set up "occupy" type tents to prevent trees from being removed. One politician even stood before an excavation backhoe to block it, comparing himself to the man who stood before the tanks in Beijing's Tiananmen Square, or Boris Yeltsin climbing on a tank in Moscow's Red Square. Things changed early Friday morning, when the police cracked down and attacked the demonstrators with tear gas canisters and water cannon. By Saturday, the small protest had grown into an anti-government protest by thousands of demonstrators in Istanbul and with copycat protests in cities across Turkey, demanding that Turkey's prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan step down. It's expected that the protests will simmer down at some point, but some people are comparing them to the initial protests in 2010 that led the Arab Spring. Zaman (Turkey) and Hurriyet (Turkey)

China blasts Philippines over stranded warship from 1999

China, which is pursuing a policy of using its vast military power to confiscate as much of other nations' territory as it can, blasted the Philippines on Thursday for delays in removing a warship that was grounded on the Ayungin Shoal / Renai Reef near the Spratly Islands in 1999. China is calling the grounded ship a "serious encroachment of territorial sovereignty," and warned the Philippines not to stir up any more trouble in the South China Sea. China is claiming "indisputable" sovereignty over the entire South China Sea, including many regions that have historically belonged to other countries, including the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunei and Taiwan. All these nations, except Brunei, have troops stationed on various islands in the Spratlys to assert their respective claims. China is demanding that each of these nations avoid trouble by simply giving up their claims, and turning the entire region over to Chinese sovereignty. China Daily and The Tribune (Philippines)

PLA: China faces increasing 'strategic pressure' in Asia

According to a new report by China's People's Liberation Army (PLA), "the complexity, sensitivity and uncertainty of China's security environment loom large." Territorial disputes between China and Japan, and also between China and various countries bordering the South China Sea, are becoming fiercer, and has even provoked interference by the United States. According to Yue Gang, a retired PLA colonel, China has always faced these confrontations, especially since it has become the largest communist state:

"But that was a confrontation over ideology, while this time it is about territorial dispute. Any compromise in these disputes will trigger a wave of nationalist movements in the relevant countries."

South China Morning Post (Hong Kong)

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