The Implications of the Xi-Ma Meeting for China-Taiwan Relations
Cross-Strait relations are merely one factor in the voting calculus of the Taiwanese electorate, and Beijing still does not formally recognise the existence of Taiwan.
Testing the Waters in the South China Sea
Reactions to US operations in the South China Sea demonstrate that China and the United States seem to have established a working protocol for issues they disagree on
China and the ‘Thucydides Trap’
China’s rise may be bringing an end to the Gramscian notion of western hegemony and thereby creating a new kind of balance of power.
India’s Incremental Balancing in the South China Sea
India’s strategic-military arrangements are implicitly China-centric, and with increasing significance for the balance of power in the South China Sea.
China and the South China Sea Disputes
Since the tension over the disputes in the South China Sea has been escalating in recent years, establishing a Code of Conduct has become a pressing need.
Can Legalism Avoid War in the South China Sea?
The focus of peace effort for the past decade in the region has been on a specific Code of Conduct, a set of norms that recognizes the rule of UNCLOS in the settlement of maritime territorial disputes. The more the disputes become a matter of legal norms, the less benefits could be achieved by means of dangerous military demonstrations.
Geopolitical Insecurities and Territorial Grievances in East Asia
The roots of the South China Sea disputes originate in the results of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea. Coming to terms with China as it exerts its power will be pricey, yet necessary.
Pnom Penh: Strategic Implications
The strategic landscape in South East Asia is reordering. Southeast Asians and Americans must convince China that the “nine-dotted line” South China Sea is a bridge too far.
Factors Fuelling China’s Expanding Maritime Operations
China’s traditional inward-looking nature is gradually giving way to a more expansive maritime presence, as demonstrated in both Beijing’s rhetoric and actions. Despite myriad regional maritime disputes, naval cooperation in the Asia-Pacific remains both possible and desirable.
China in Transition: From a Harmonious World to a Contested Region
China’s new leadership will inherit a complex, and highly contested security environment from Sino-US relations to territorial disputes in the South China Sea.
