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Is There Any Way to Counter China’s Gray Zone Tactics in the South China Sea?
China and India’s moves to de-escalate tensions over the Doklam standoff inspired commentary about how Beijing’s coercive strategies can be countered. Some may argue that after all, India can be deemed a peer competitor to China in terms of relative power, especially militarily. Both countries are nuclear-weapon states and if push ever comes to shove in renewed border hostilities, they…
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A Path Towards Environmental Management in the South China Sea
As part of an effort to manage the South China Sea disputes, the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) has set up and begun convening a newly-launched South China Sea Expert Working Group that brings together prominent experts on maritime law, international relations, and the marine environment. The objective is for the group to meet regularly to tackle issues…
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A FONOP Schedule in the South China Sea: What Next?
How can regularized FONOPs benefit U.S. interests in the South China Sea? Earlier this month, the Wall Street Journal reported that the U.S. Department of Defense, for the first time under the Trump administration, had decided to set up a schedule of regular freedom of navigation operations (FONOPs) in the South China Sea under the authority of U.S. Pacific…
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Wisdom from a legal giant
Last Saturday, I wrote about and extensively quoted from Associate Justice Antonio Carpio’s commencement speech to the 2 PHD in Leadership and 32 Masters in Public Management graduates of the Ateneo School of Government. The speech is entitled “My Journey in Public Service” and it is full of lessons for public servants and for those who work on governance…
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The Week Donald Trump Lost the South China Sea
Vietnam’s capitulation shows China’s neighbors fear the U.S. no longer has their backs. The Week Donald Trump Lost the South China Sea Vietnam’s history is full of heroic tales of resistance to China. But this month Hanoi bent the knee to Beijing, humiliated in a contest over who controls the South China Sea, the most disputed waterway in the world.…
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Taiwan could play role in resolving S. China Sea dispute: expert
[urlpreviewbox url=”http://focustaiwan.tw/news/aipl/201709080018.aspx”/] Taipei, Sept. 8 (CNA) The Republic of China (Taiwan) could play an important role in resolving the South China Sea dispute as it was the ROC that first claimed sovereignty over the region and it still has many historic documents on the issue, a visiting UK expert said on Friday. “I think Taiwan could play a really important…
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Indonesia starts to confront China’s territorial claims in South China Sea
JAKARTA (NYTIMES) – When Indonesia recently – and quite publicly – renamed the northernmost waters of its exclusive economic zone in the South China Sea despite China’s claims to the area, Beijing quickly dismissed the move as “meaningless.” It is proving to be anything but. Indonesia’s increasingly aggressive posture in the region – including a military buildup in its nearby…
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Group urges solon to challenge Duterte’s ‘lackadaisical’ stance on China
[urlpreviewbox url=”http://usa.inquirer.net/6395/group-urges-solon-challenge-dutertes-lackadaisical-stance-china”/] MARIANAS — Representatives of National Youth Movement for the West Philippine Sea (NYMWPS) recently met with Magdalo Partylist Representative Gary Alejano to encourage him to challenge China’s incursions in the West Philippine Sea and the “lackadaisical stance” of the Duterte administration government in defending Philippine sovereignty. In that meeting, members of the group has expressed concern over reports…
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Finally, Strategic Clarity in the South China Sea. Is the Taiwan Strait Next?
Routine FONOPS in the South China Sea are long overdue — as are Taiwan Strait passages. Despite its recent tragic incidents, the United States Navy has adopted a cool-headed new approach to Freedom of Navigation Operations (FONOPS) in the South China Sea. Long overdue, it is a clear, firm, enforcement of the international maritime order and reflects a strategic vision…
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The Rise of Maritime China
As The People’s Republic of China (PRC) continues its historically unprecedented economic expansion, with its accompanying prestige, she has accordingly sought to expand her hegemony on the world stage. The centerpiece of this incrementalist program has been an ambitious and destabilizing program of building up airstrips and bases atop disputed reefs within the South China Sea (SCS). A glance at…