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China Details Argument in South China Sea Dispute: China’s Position Paper and...
Yesterday, China’s foreign ministry released a position paper related to its maritime dispute with the Philippines in the South China Sea. The paper laid out the justification for China’s refusal to...
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Digging In: Land Reclamation and Defenses in the South China Sea
The U.S. Department of Defense’s latest assessment of the Chinese military provided new detail on China’s land reclamation efforts on several of the islets that it occupies in the South China Sea....
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Japan’s Security Role in Southeast Asia (and the South China Sea)
Only a few years ago, it would have seemed inconceivable that Japan would have any security role outside of Japanese territorial waters. But in a January 2015 interview, Admiral Robert Thomas,...
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Strategic Intentions: China’s Military Strategy White Paper
On Tuesday, China published its latest defense white paper. Unlike its’ eight predecessors, this document was the first time that China publicly unveiled parts of its military strategy. Even the...
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The Almost-Normal Country: Japan and the Use of Force
The enactment of Japan’s new national security bills was a long time in the making. The bills, already passed by the lower house of the Japanese Diet in July, were approved by its upper house last...
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China’s “One Belt, One Road” to Where?
During visits to Central and Southeast Asia in 2013, Chinese President Xi Jinping unveiled Beijing’s aspiration to create what it called the Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st-Century Maritime Silk...
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China’s Encirclement Concerns
For almost two decades, Chinese strategists have worried about what they regard as the geopolitical encirclement of China. At various times, they have attributed that encirclement to the United States,...
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Getting Tougher: Vietnam’s Response to China’s South China Sea Bases
Over the last few months, Vietnam has quietly deployed the components of several Extended Range Artillery (EXTRA) rocket systems to five of the islands that it occupies in the Spratly archipelago,...
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Who Benefits from China’s “One Belt, One Road” Initiative?
China’s Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st-Century Maritime Silk Road Under its Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st-Century Maritime Silk Road (commonly known as the “One Belt, One Road” initiative)...
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Standing Firm, Mostly: Militarization of the South China Sea
China’s Presence in the South China Sea Last week, a Chinese naval vessel which had been shadowing the USNS Bowditch, a U.S. Navy oceanographic ship, scooped up one of the ship’s unmanned underwater...
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