Foreign ministers of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) have belatedly registered their concern over the ongoing tensions in the South China Sea, at the tail end of a year that has seen numerous confrontations between Chinese and Philippine vessels. In a statement issued on Saturday, the second to last day of 2023, the … Read more
Advertisement As the second most used sea lane in the world, the South China Sea is a global nerve center of crisscrossing sub-regional, regional, and global supply chains. According to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, more than one-fifth of global trade passed through the waters of the South China Sea in 2016 … Read more
Asia Defense The ASEAN Solidarity Exercise, which runs until September 23, is the first joint military drill that the Southeast Asian bloc has conducted on its own. Advertisement The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) today began a five-day joint military exercise in Indonesian waters, amid growing tensions in the nearby South China Sea. The … Read more
Advertisement Southeast Asian leaders led by Indonesian host President Joko Widodo are gathering in their final summit this year, besieged by divisive issues with no solutions in sight: Myanmar’s deadly civil strife, new flare-ups in the disputed South China Sea, and the longstanding United States-China rivalry. The Association of Southeast Asian Nations meetings will open … Read more
Advertisement Tomorrow, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) will begin a three-day run of summits and meetings against a backdrop of intensifying frictions in the South China Sea. The disputes, which pit China’s expansive “nine-dash line” maritime claim against rival claims from four Southeast Asian claimants – Vietnam, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Brunei – … Read more