Category: War and Conflict

• Interpreting Ma Ying-jeou’s Visit to Taiping Island

  What are the implications of the Taiwanese president’s visit to the Spratlys for his country’s international space? What possibilities lie ahead for the incoming DPP administration?

• North Korea’s Nuclear Test: Regional Reactions and the Chinese Responsibility

  Calling the North Korean regime a ‘rogue’ one only deflect attention from China’s responsibility and indirect support for nuclear proliferation

• US FON Ops and China’s Continuing Challenge

  The USS Lassens action will not prevent China from persisting with its ‘forward policy’ in the South China Sea.

• India, China and the Yarlung Tsangpo: Much Ado About Nothing?

  China’s operationalization of the Zangmu hydropower station on the Yarlung Tsangpo/Brahmaputra must be seen in the context of environmental developments elsewhere in the country.

• Using China as Leverage with Pakistan

  India has ignored the possibilities that China offers as a pressure point on Pakistan

• Arunachal Pradesh in the Sino-Indian Boundary Dispute: Constant Claims, Changing Politics

  The persistent Sino-Indian boundary dispute needs to be seen within the framework of centre-periphery relations in China and India and well as of their different political systems.

• China’s 2015 Defence White Paper: Military Strategy Meets Foreign Policy

  Has Beijing reached a stage where it is willing to face crisis and/or conflict instead of preventing these in the first place?

• The Why of China’s Actions in the South China Sea

  China is trying to create a ‘moral code’ for its foreign policy activity but this code is also founded on a sense of national exceptionalism

• China and Vietnam: Neither Thick Friends nor Constant Antagonists

  There is a tripwire of caution built into the Sino-Vietnamese relationship, perhaps more so, on the Vietnamese side.