In Chinese leaders’ eyes, the South China Sea is critical to their strategy of expanding China’s influence and making China a world power. Politically speaking, the South China Sea is where China can deploy its “soft border” doctrine and its ...

China’s ambition to “monopolize control” of the South China Sea is not only having command over the waters adjacent to Vietnam, the Philippines, Malaysia… in the South China Sea but also controlling waters thousands of kilometers away from China such ...

          Global Geopolitical Trends and External Factors that Impact the ASEAN To be able to comprehend the influence of global trends on the situation in East Asia in greater detail, it is appropriate to recall the “Three Grand Imperatives of ...

Ha Anh Tuan, Director of the Centre for Policy Analysis under the Institute for East Sea (Biển Đông) Maritime Studies, writes on the legal implications of the arbitral tribunal’s ruling and its impacts two years on. Dr Ha Anh Tuan, ...

On Monday 14 May 2018 the Chinese Journal of International Law, an Oxford University Press journal, published an extraordinary 500 page “Critical Study” of the Awards on jurisdiction and the merits in the South China Sea Arbitration between the Philippines and China. Readers ...

This DW series explores China’s rise as a global superpower. This article examines the country’s foreign policy agenda, which, according to some experts on China, still lacks a grand strategy. The assertive foreign policy is a relatively new development, however. ...

The EU has always paid great attention to the developments in the South China Sea (SCS). The world’s largest trading block has a strategic interest in safeguarding free, safe and stable shipping lanes, especially those connecting it to its economic ...

The Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership, a new version of the Trans-Pacific Partnership will be signed by 11 member countries Thursday in Chile. The agreement is expected to bring new opportunities for a free trade area stretching from the North ...

A group of four allied nations – Australia, India, Japan and the United States – intends to maintain open access to the South China Sea for international use, despite China’s growing control. These countries will probably make tough claims to ...

The world’s second-largest economy has been deploying disruptive technology that could strengthen its territorial ambitions in the South China Sea . Late last month, Beijing dropped a dozen underwater drones, also known as unmanned underwater vehicles, in an unspecified location ...

Session 1: Security situation Just like land security, maritime security includes both traditional security and non-traditional security. Under this framework, the paper focuses on analyzing some of the main contents of non-traditional security that threaten the security of the South ...

The main outline of US’s policy in the Asian region, especially with China and the South China Sea The main lines of US’s policy in the Asian region, especially with China and the South China Sea area of US Presidential ...

25/6/2017 Russia and Vietnam have upgraded their relationship to a comprehensive strategic partner. Vietnam-Russia are developing a joint project on oil and gas in the South China Sea and Moscow also wishes to return to Cam Ranh Bay and sell ...

(VOVworld) – One month after the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) decided an award on the Philippines’ arbitration proceedings against China on the interpretation and application of the 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, the public shows ...

Beijing asserts sweeping ownership in these contested waters. Now an international tribunal has ruled in favour of the Philippines in case over territorial control China asserts sovereignty over maritime areas that are also claimed by Vietnam, Taiwan, Malaysia, Brunei, the ...