South China Sea: Ample opportunity for Asean-China connectivity
China-Asean and China-US relations in the South China Sea have trended in opposite directions since…
Off the rocks: Philippine flagship BRP Gregorio del Pilar removed from shoal (video) *updated
The Philippine Navy managed to get its stranded flagship, the BRP Gregorio del Pilar, off Half…
Fishing militia to spearhead Vietnam’s response to China in South China Sea (video)
China has long been infamous for incorporating maritime militias into its fishing industry to assert…
Goodbye Panatag Shoal, hello Huangyan Dao? (HD video) *updated
A ground-swell of discontent is gaining momentum in the Philippines to President Rodrego Duterte’s apparent…
Increased military spending does not portend an Asean arms race
Southeast Asian countries’ historically high defence budgets are the sum of various national considerations: financial…
Modi’s act east, new India focus sees Indonesia-India ties bolstered
India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi has just completed another of his ‘Act East’ expansionist…
War: Philippines says it will fight if ‘red line’ crossed… With what? (video)
Philippines Foreign Affairs Secretary Alan Peter Cayetano on Monday defended the administrations apparent soft stance…
A fragile new ‘normal’ descends on South China Sea claimants
The United States and China have apparently reached a tacit agreement to disagree and maintain…
Time running out for US to firm Philippines relationship
In spite of the United States’ renewed focus on great power competition in the 2018 National Defense Strategy…
USS Carl Vinson: world’s largest aircraft carrier arrives in Vietnam (video)
When the USS Carl Vinson and its accompanying escort vessels berthed in Danang on the…
South China Sea Harmony: Beijing’s For The Taking
The Philippines is on the front line of China’s entry into a strategic theatre in…
Cooperation & Struggle: Vietnam’s South China Sea Strategy
A little over a year ago the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) ruled on an…
Friendships set to be tested as US moves closer to war in ‘China’
‘The United States (US) has invaded China’. This would certainly be the message that Chinese…
With TPP Trumped, Finalisation of RCEP More Urgent as War Drums Beat
United States Secretary of State nominee Rex Tillerson’s recent provocative comments about China, while perhaps good…
Poisoned chalice: why no one is rushing to embrace the PCA South China Sea ruling (video)
Analyses of state responses to the South China Sea arbitral award by the Permanent Court…
Skilful Lao Leadership Boosts Asean Unity on South China Sea
Clouded by controversy even before it began, the recently concluded 49th Asean Foreign Ministers’ Meeting…