... claim that both nations are willing to risk a war over tiny islands rich in fisheries is ridiculous. But that's exactly how the Western media amplifies such tensions.
Panview: What is the right solution to resolve territorial claims in the South China Sea?
Maavak: Negotiations should only involve claimant nations. Non-claimant outside parties have no business in getting involved in regional boundary disputes. All claimant parties -- China and relevant Association of Southeast Asian Nations ...
Experts and diplomats from the US, Europe and Asia took part in the 7th South China Sea International Conference “
Cooperation for Regional Security and Development
” that took place in Vietnam’s Vung Tau city on November 23-24, 2015.
The conference discussed the impact of key trends in the global development ...
The decision of the United States to conduct Freedom of Navigation Operations (FONOPs) around the artificial islands in the South China Sea, which China uses for justifying her sovereigny claims in this area, has somewhat increased tensions between the two countries. The newspaper Global Times known for its notorious nationalism commented on the employment of the American ...
How does Russia’s pivot to the East factor into the ongoing tensions in the South China Sea region? I have invited Dr. Hanns Maull, Visiting Professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies and Senior Distinguished Fellow at Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (German Institute for International ...
More ships, high-quality and original
The situation around the South China Sea is developing rapidly. However, asserting unambiguously that territorial disputes between China and the ASEAN countries combined with the regional rivalry between Beijing and Washington are bound to lead to military confrontation is too ...
The latest edition of the annual IISS
Shangri-La Dialogue
conference that took place in Singapore on May 29–31, 2015, showed that the problem of the South China Sea, a little-known, distant and exotic land to Russians, is coming to the fore in both regional and world politics. As a matter of fact, the South China Sea is becoming one of the most important points of tension in the world, perhaps on ...
...
pivots on the one central issue that overrides all others: the
perceived threat
from mainland China. Farther south, the
Philippines
and
Vietnam
are involved in something approaching maritime guerilla warfare in order to resist Chinese expansion in the South China Sea. They are
reportedly considering
a formal alliance directed against China.
No shortage of long-festering disputes can be added to this list: the disagreement between Japan and Russia over the
Kurile Islands
, the legacy of North Korea's ...
Despite efforts of certain states, territorial disputes in the South China Sea are becoming increasingly internationalized. Their possible outcomes and major global actors’ interests were discussed at the conference “Security and Cooperation in the South China Sea” held in Radisson Slavyanskaya ...
China, Philippines, Vietnam, USA
The latest developments in the South China Sea conflict between China and the Philippines, Vietnam and Malaysia have been escalating tensions in the region and affecting the conflict's entire political configuration. The issue is China's decision to deploy maritime policing vessels ...
