The Trump defense buildup is essential to dig us out of the hole we’ve been in for 8-10 years: Gen. Jack Keane Fox News strategic analyst Gen. Jack Keane (Ret.) on President Trump’s buildup of U.S. defense spending. China’s Opens a New Window. military is powerful enough to replace the U.S. as the world’s dominant […]
In diplomacy and foreign relations, appeasement refers to a state’s effort to mollify or pacify, but not necessarily align with, a revisionist power. An appeasing state could extend diplomatic concessions to a revisionist power without necessarily aligning or subordinating its foreign policy with the latter’s. Appeasement can either complement a bandwagoning policy because a weak […]
JAPAN has said it is ready to protect the Philippines with its security needs and keep the South China Sea open for free passage of ships and goods. The Philippines’ ambassador to Japan, Jose Laurel V, noted the country has agreed to give 10 coastguard ships and other defence assets to Manila, according to the […]
US Navy personnel point at a computer screen showing Chinese activity on the Fiery Cross Reef in the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea. An Australian scholar said Chinese ships pointed lasers at them during a flight over the disputed sea. Photo: ReutersUS Navy personnel point at a computer screen showing Chinese activity on […]
BEIJING – A witness says Australian navy helicopter pilots were hit by lasers while exercising in the South China Sea, forcing them to land as a precaution. Scholar Euan Graham, who was onboard the Royal Australian Navy flagship HMAS Canberra on a voyage from Vietnam to Singapore, said in an account of the incident […]
BASCO , Philippines — Government troops have completed construction of a fisherman’s shelter on Mavulis Island, the uninhabited and northernmost island of the country. The Armed Forces of the Philippines-Northern Luzon Command (Nolcom) on Monday formally turned over the facility to the provincial government of Batanes to serve as a shelter for fishermen from […]
THE recent “airport-to-airport” experience of former Ombudsman Conchita Carpio-Morales at the hands of Hong Kong immigration authorities should teach past and present government officials — and the public at large — something about the promise and peril of international law. Given our raucous democracy, Filipinos can pretty much do — and say — as they […]
t appears that the administration of US President Donald Trump is finally putting some meat on the bones of its Asia policy. According to news reports, acting Secretary of Defense Pat Shanahan will unveil the United States’ new “Indo-Pacific strategy” at the upcoming Shangri-La Dialogue (SLD), which will be held in Singapore beginning this […]
China responded angrily on Monday as Taiwan confirmed the first meeting in more than four decades between senior US and Taiwanese security officials. Taiwan’s national security chief David Lee met White House national security adviser John Bolton earlier this month, the island’s foreign affairs ministry said in a statement on Saturday. The official Central […]
When I began researching South China Sea issues, the topic was often the butt of deprecating jokes from ‘global strategic thinkers’ because they thought the issues were ‘inconsequential’. A common comment was ‘sea level rise will solve all the problems there, ‘ implying that the sea will cover all the contested features and thus […]