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According to South China Morning Post, Apple’s online stores on e-commerce platform JD.com showed a markdown of 800 yuan for iPhone 14 Pro and Pro Max models, with an additional 50 yuan off if the buyer became a member of the online store.
Source: https://www.canindia.com/apple-cuts-iphone-14-models-prices-by-up-to-125-in-china-to-boost-sales/
Along with a number of China's smaller neighbors, Vietnam has maritime and territorial disputes with Beijing in the South China Sea.
Source: https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20230415/us-vietnam-pledge-to-boost-ties-as-blinken-visits-hanoi
Also in December, a Chinese jet a U.S. aircraft flying over international waters in the South China Sea.
Source: https://spectator.org/bidens-ballooning-foreign-policy-blunders/
Although economics plays a part, China’s actions in the South China Sea are part of a much broader aggressive campaign.
And Craig Hooper reports in Forbes that the Marine Corps Warfighting Lab has unveiled a new prototype called the “Stern Landing Vessel” that could “change the game in the South China Sea.”
Source: https://www.lawfareblog.com/water-wars-aukus-goes-nuclear
Asia’s gambling capital, Macau (or Macao) is a special administrative region of China; a collection of islands in the Pearl River Delta of the South China Seas.
A small Philippine military contingent lives there aboard a World War II American ship that the Philippines deliberately landed there in 1999 to bolster Philippine territorial claims in the South China Sea.
Source: https://houstonianonline.com/us-warns-china-leave-philippine-ships-alone/
At a summit last month, ASEAN leaders discussed "serious incidents" in the South China Sea and ongoing negotiations for a code of conduct aimed at reducing the risk of conflict there.
At the height of tensions between the US and China over the South China Sea, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi chose the annual Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore in 2018 to unveil his strategy for the Indo-Pacific.
Australia and the Philippines have commenced regular joint navy and airforce patrols in the South China Sea, as Pacific nations warily eye an increasingly assertive China.
“(Australia) and Vietnam share a view on the South China Sea, and that the Convention on the Law of the Sea needs to be upheld and maintained,” Mr Albanese told media in Hanoi on Saturday.
Source: https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/world/asia-news/2023/06/04/albanese-us-china-talk-vietnam/
Beijing has also been rapidly adding nuclear warheads, taking a tougher line on its claim to the South China Sea and painting a scenario of impending confrontation.
Source: https://krdo.com/news/2023/04/16/g-7-envoys-urge-tough-stance-on-chinese-n-korean-aggression/
BEIJING: The US Navy said its guided-missile destroyer USS Milius conducted a navigational rights and freedoms mission in the South China Sea near the Spratly Islands on Monday (Apr 10).
Source: https://www.channelnewsasia.com/asia/south-china-sea-us-navy-uss-milius-3407496?cid=cna_flip_070214
Biden also reaffirmed the US’s “ironclad” commitment to provide support to the country in defending itself in the Pacific including the South China Sea.
Both sides have long disagreed over the presence of U.S. warships in the South China Sea and Taiwan Strait, which China claims as its own waters and the United States considers international waters.
But the leaders expressed “serious concern” about the situation in the East and South China seas, where Beijing has been expanding its military presence and threatening to use force to exert its control over self-governed Taiwan.
By 2001, when bilateral relations were shaken by a midair collision over the South China Sea between a Chinese fighter jet and a U.S. Navy EP-3 reconnaissance plane, Dr. Green was serving on President George W. Bush’s national security Asia team.
ByteDance, the Chinese parent company of video app TikTok, has laid off hundreds of employees across multiple departments at the end of 2022 as part of a cost-cutting measure, the South China Morning Post reported on Tuesday.
ByteDance, TikTok’s Chinese parent company, laid off hundreds of workers in China at the end of 2022 to streamline operations, according to Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post.
Source: https://observer.com/2023/01/tiktok-parent-bytedance-reportedly-cut-hundreds-of-workers-in-china/
China also just concluded joint drills with Singapore in the southern reaches of the South China Sea, in international waters, according to Singapore's defence ministry on Friday.