TOKYO – Japan and Vietnam on Friday reaffirmed their common position to settle maritime disputes through peaceful means based on international law. “We welcome support by the Japanese government and parliament for Vietnam’s position to settle disputes through peaceful means based on the 1982 U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea and international law,” […]
A new article in The Economist had some misinterpretations about President Ma Ying-jeou’s recent remarks on the South China Sea’s territorial disputes given on September 1st as addressing the Exhibition of Historical Archives on the Southern Territories of the Republic of China. The article mistakenly presents that Taiwan would hugely limit its claim to only […]
Earlier May 2014, China unexpectedly moved the HD-981 oil rig to the location that is about 17 nautical miles from the island of Tri Ton (of Vietnam’s Hoang Sa Archipelago) and 120 nautical miles from Ly Son Island (Da Nang province), deep in the exclusive economic zone (EEZ) of Vietnam, and 180 nautical miles from […]
Earlier May 2014, China unexpectedly moved the HD-981 oil rig to the location that is about 17 nautical miles from the island of Tri Ton (of Vietnam’s Hoang Sa Archipelago) and 120 nautical miles from Ly Son Island (Da Nang province), deep in the exclusive economic zone (EEZ) of Vietnam, and 180 nautical miles from […]
At the heart of increasing tension and strategic turbulence in the South China Sea (SCS) region is the sovereignty disputes over “rocks and islands.” In such an atmosphere of mutual mistrust, Indonesia, a regional power, revels in its role as a “mediator,” “go-between,” and a stabilizing force. Having chosen to play the role of an […]
China’s maritime disputes with its Asian neighbors over the Senkaku Islands, the Spratly Islands, and the Paracel Islands have made these collections of islets well known. (In China, they are known as the Diaoyu, Nansha, and Xisha Islands, respectively.) So far, Indonesia has largely stayed out of the fray—so much so that it is rarely […]
In mid-2014, the People’s Republic of China deployed an oil rig, protected by Chinese coast guard vessels, into waters claimed by Vietnam. Prior to this, the Chinese tried to prevent the resupply of Philippine Marines based on the Second Thomas Shoal in March 2014. Hence, buoyed by an economy that fuels its regional military preponderance, […]
China has deployed its most advanced guided-missile destroyer to the disputed South China Sea to participate in a large naval exercise, according to Taiwanese media. This week, the Want Daily and its English-language sister site, Want China Times, reported that China deployed the Kunming, the first of its new Type 052D guided-missile destroyers (DDG), to […]
Banyan Joining the dashes The South China Sea’s littoral states will fight in the museums, in the archives and on the maps Oct 4th 2014 | From the print edition Timekeeper THE countries around the South China Sea have long engaged in competitive cartography. It is now becoming a spectator sport. In June, at an […]
MANILA— The Philippines has stopped all development work in the disputed South China Sea because of the impact such activity might have on an arbitration complaint it has filed against China, a defense official said on Friday. The Philippines has called for all countries to stop construction work on small islands and reefs in the […]