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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…
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China drags Indonesia into South China Sea morass
Beijing’s rebuke of Jakarta’s decision to rename its natural gas-rich Natuna Island region has agitated what had been a quiescent territorial dispute What’s in a name? Quite a lot it seems, particularly when it comes to China’s expansive claims to the South China Sea, which Beijing has increasingly come to regard as its own backyard. Six weeks…
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Cooperation in Disputed Asian Sea Fails Despite 2 Decades of Discussion
TAIPEI — Countries with competing claims to the South China Sea have failed to start joint resource projects with the strongest one, China, despite discussions over the past two decades, as they fear unequal results or a loss of sovereignty. Front-line countries in Southeast Asia worry they would take a minor role compared to China or end up…
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US will send more navy patrols to disputed South China Sea amid tensions with Beijing
THE US will be increasing its navy patrols in the disputed waters of the South China Sea, the Pentagon has confirmed – a decision that is likely to outrage Beijing. Pentagon officials have confirmed that US Pacific Command will be executing “freedom-of-navigation operations” approximately two or three times each month in a bid to Beijing’s claims over the South…
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Report: China poised to achieve air supremacy over ‘first island chain’
The “first island chain” refers to the first major archipelagos off the East Asian continental mainland, including the Japanese archipelago, Ryukyu Islands, Taiwan and the northern Philippines. Wikimedia Commons/Suid-Afrikaanse MANILA, Philippines — China has demonstrated its ability to gain air supremacy over areas of the “first island chain” as it continues its military buildup in the region, according to…
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How America Can Keep From Losing in the South China Sea
Washington is losing ground in the South China Sea, and risks making the situation lasting unless America imposes “real” strategic costs to China. Part one of this two-part series provided strategic perspectives and context to the recent uptick in tensions in the South China Sea (SCS) following a year of relative calm since the International Tribunal of the Permanent…