SOUTH CHINA SEA tensions continue to soar as Vietnam has issued another devastating attack on Beijing. The two nations have clashed recently, as China looks to increase its territorial gains in the region. With China looking to claim territory under its nine-dash line policy, Beijing has come into conflict with several nations within the […]

China has set its sights high – very high – in terms of economic development, aiming to become not just one of the world’s superpowers by 2049 (the 100 year anniversary of the People’s Republic of China) but the leading superpower worldwide. With such lofty goals China has barreled full-speed ahead toward the future, and […]

Financial markets tend to oscillate between optimism and pessimism. But, for some time now, the dominant emotion has been confusion, and extreme confusion at that. Ever since the dramatic sell-off in the final quarter of last year, in which the benchmark S&P 500 equity index fell 12.3 per cent, a widespread, and profound, sense of […]

The Philippines used to refuse to put stamps on Chinese passports with the now-invalid nine-dash line, the policy of which was amended this year. The policy was enforced in 2012 under then Foreign Affairs Secretary Albert del Rosario during the Aquino administration. A Reddit user brought this up following two cases of China’s controversial map […]

Senior Associate Justice Antonio T. Carpio retires at midnight today, October 25, after serving the Supreme Court (SC) for 18 years. On Saturday, October 26, he will be 70 years old, the mandatory retirement age for members of the judiciary. Carpio was appointed SC associate justice by former President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo in 2001. He […]

Comparing the state of Japan-China relations in the wake of Shinzo Abe’s return to the prime ministership in December 2012 to today, the bilateral relationship has come back to a semblance of normality. During this transition period, we had Japanese and Chinese ambassadors dueling on the BBC, comparing each other’s political leaders to the Harry […]

HANOI—A Chinese oil survey vessel that has been embroiled in a tense standoff with Vietnamese vessels in the South China Sea left Vietnamese-controlled waters on Oct. 24 after more than three months, marine data showed. The Chinese vessel, the Haiyang Dizhi 8, was speeding away from Vietnam’s exclusive economic zone towards China on Thursday under […]

XI JINPING was delivered a critical blow to Beijing’s dominance in the South China Sea after one of its vessels finally left the region following a tense standoff. China and Vietnam have clashed over the presence of an oil survey ship, the Haiyan Dizhi 8, that has been stationed in Vietnamese-controlled waters. The vessel has […]

The secretary of the US Navy said on Wednesday that for the US to meet the challenge of countering the threat of China, it would need to take a page from China’s playbook and employ an “all of government” approach. Additionally, Richard Spencer said, that approach required a larger reliance on US allies in the […]

HANOI – A Chinese oil survey vessel that has been embroiled in a tense standoff with Vietnamese vessels in the South China Sea left Vietnamese-controlled waters on Thursday after more than 3 months, marine data showed. The Chinese vessel, the Haiyang Dizhi 8, was speeding away from Vietnam’s exclusive economic zone towards China on Thursday […]