U.S. Perspective on the South China Sea Order: Strategy Under the Trump Administration

By Colin Willet

March 22, 2018

While much of the day-to-day work of managing U.S. diplomatic, economic, and security interactions in Asia seems to have continued unchanged, this belies a very significant difference in the Trump Administration’s apparent view of how the United States should engage with the world.

An Effect of Trump and More: The Emerging Retrenchment of China’s Strategic Posture

By Shi Yinhong

March 8, 2018

By concluding that The United States can better achieve its goals by flattering a Chinese leader, Trump seemed to signal a reversal of roles: The United States may now need China’s help more than the other way around. Undoubtedly, President Xi ...

Duterte’s Evolving South China Sea Policy

By Aileen S.P. Baviera

January 25, 2018

Philippine policy on the South China Sea under Duterte is clearly still evolving, and efforts to seek a correct balance between a principled nationalist stand and more pragmatic objectives are bound to encounter many tests.

Philippine Military Pursues Territorial Defense Goals despite Rapprochement between the Philippines and China

By Renato Cruz De Castro

November 14, 2016

President Rodrigo Duterte’s high profile state visit to Beijing in October 2017 led analysts, observers, and decision-makers all over East Asia to conclude the Philippines have turned away from its traditional treaty ally, the United States and have embraced China.

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U.S. Perspective on the South China Sea Order: Strategy Under the Trump Administration

An Effect of Trump and More: The Emerging Retrenchment of China’s Strategic Posture

Duterte’s Evolving South China Sea Policy

Philippine Military Pursues Territorial Defense Goals despite Rapprochement between the Philippines and China