Understanding China’s perspectives on ocean governance – and where they come from – is vital to forging a path forward on disputes over contested waters.
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While there are good reasons not to exaggerate these events, the bad news is these incidents are almost certain to continue. But we shouldn’t frame them as if we’re in the brink of war.
There are four potential flash points where conflict with China could break out. Beijing, though, has yet to present a ‘nail’ to the US ‘hammer’.
The contestation of Asia will continue this year, with many countries facing internal and external battles.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe may have just demonstrated to other world leaders how to possibly approach President Donald Trump.
China may have more to gain from Trump’s rise than any other nation – but the risks of a miscalculation are enormous.
Two of East Asia’s biggest powers are still technically at war and deadlocked over contested territories. Now one of them wants to be friends.
If the 2016 presidential candidates are anything to go by, Taiwan’s relationship with Beijing could be in for a major defrost.
Japan has spent decades proudly staying out of military matters, but China’s maritime belligerence has changed all that.
On September 19 the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, concluded a three-day trip to India. As he set off to meet Narendra Modi, Xi wrote in The Hindu that China and India “need to become co-operation partners…
When a highly populous, rapidly developing, nuclear armed, space-voyaging and increasingly assertive Asian nation announces the purchase of its third aircraft carrier, a few months after launching its…
US Vice President Joe Biden’s trip to Asia next week could not come at a more timely moment. It is the first high level visit since President Obama cancelled his trip during the government shutdown in…
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