Time Running Out For US to Firm Philippines Relationship (video)
In spite of the United States’ renewed focus on great power competition in the 2018 National Defense Strategy…
USS Carl Vinson: World’s Largest Aircraft Carrier Arrives in Vietnam (video)
When the USS Carl Vinson and its accompanying escort vessels berthed in Danang on the…
South China Sea Harmony: Beijing’s For The Taking
The Philippines is on the front line of China’s entry into a strategic theatre in…
Cooperation & Struggle: Vietnam’s South China Sea Strategy
A little over a year ago the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) ruled on an…
Friendships Set to Be Tested as US Moves Closer to War in ‘China’
‘The United States (US) has invaded China’. This would certainly be the message that Chinese…
With TPP Trumped, Finalisation of RCEP More Urgent as War Drums Beat
United States Secretary of State nominee Rex Tillerson’s recent provocative comments about China, while perhaps good…
Poisoned Chalice: Why No One Is Rushing to Embrace the PCA South China Sea Ruling
Analyses of state responses to the South China Sea arbitral award by the Permanent Court…
Skilful Lao Leadership Boosts Asean Unity on South China Sea
Clouded by controversy even before it began, the recently concluded 49th Asean Foreign Ministers’ Meeting…
China 1937CN Team Infiltrate Vietnam Airlines, Airports
Tensions between Vietnam and China over competing claims in the South China Sea took an…
South China Sea ruling Puts Asean and China at a crossroad
Almost 30 years to the day that a young, Harvard-trained American lawyer won a famous…
China Successfully Divides Asean on The South China Sea
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi’s whirlwind tour of Brunei, Cambodia and Laos between April 22…
Achieving Harmony in The Wake of The South China Sea Ruling
Southeast Asia has descended into a maritime insecurity spiral since the April–June 2012 stand-off at…
When it Comes to Chinese Aid Cambodia Should be Cautious
In a 2006 speech Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen praised China, saying that ‘China talks…
What to Expect From President Duterte
Since the election of Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte as the next Philippine president in…
Brinkmanship in the South China Sea helps nobody
Recent months have seen a continuing increase in military activities in the South China Sea,…
Disengagement Fears Put US & Asia Allies All at Sea Over China
In the capitals of America’s Asia allies, two phenomena are combining to intensify already uneasy…