Looking beyond Asia, India and Japan have also raised the stakes by including Africa in their development strategy, implicitly setting up a rival to China’s One Belt, One Road. New Delhi: Even as they cement their relationship with a much-delayed nuclear deal and building a parallel to China’s ‘OBOR’, India and Japan asserted on Friday […]

Taiwan’s coast guard and navy are planning a drill on the biggest island in the widely disputed South China Sea. The exercise at Taiping Island in the Spratly chain will obviously remind rivals China and four Southeast Asian countries of Taiwan’s massive but normally passive claim to the sea. The government in Taipei uses historical […]

THE Duterte administration’s pivot to China will bring about a change in perception on both sides, allowing a “modus vivendi” of “peace” at the West Philippine Sea (South China Sea), the country’s next ambassador to China said on Thursday. Jose Santiago “Chito” Sta. Romana, president of the Philippine Association of Chinese Studies, said the country’s […]

As India and Japan deepen their economic and strategic engagement in the Asia-Pacific region, the deteriorating maritime security environment in the South China Sea impinges on the economic and strategic interests of both states in the region. The South China Sea issue has started to figure prominently in the security dialogue between New Delhi and […]

Philippine’s President Rodrigo Duterte may have forgot all about last July’s international arbitration ruling, which found that China has no historic title over the waters of the South China Sea. But not investors fleeing Asian stocks. India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi hasn’t forgotten that either, and he may spoil China’s ambitions to dominate the South […]

The next president will have to cope with a China increasingly truculent, aggressive, and apparently confident that its rise is taking place as the United States declines There’s something every day. China just preempted the Hong Kong courts and prevented two elected candidates from taking their seats in the former colony’s legislature, because they modified […]

The next president will have to cope with a China increasingly truculent, aggressive, and apparently confident that its rise is taking place as the United States declines Yau Wai-ching of the stands in front of riot police amid ongoing protests in Hong Kong. China has blocked Yau from taking her elected seat in Hong Kong’s […]

HO CHI MINH CITY — While a resolution to the South China Sea disputes is unlikely in the near future, improving ties between Beijing and Manila could bode well for maritime peace in the region. When Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte visited China in October, some worried he was pivoting away from the United States. But […]

The President of the Phillipines’ flip-flops over the South China Sea disputes have been crashing the country’s equities market, which is down 7.2 percent in the last month. Apparently, investors are concerned about the political and economic future of that nation, and the prospects for on-going economic integration of the region and the global economy […]

In a year of global populism, no world leader has been more conspicuous than Rodrigo Duterte, the new Philippine president. But Duterte’s inflammatory rhetoric and reactionary policies have trickled into foreign and security policy matters, too, threatening to upend Washington’s pivot to Asia. Most recently, Duterte announced that he was suspending joint military patrols and […]