The ASEAN’s Achilles Heel: Institutional Deficit and Leadership Vacuum Amid China’s South China Sea Aggression
By Richard Javad Heydarian
August 2, 2019
ASEAN, long billed as the most successful model of regional integration in the post-colonial world, has become increasingly powerless in constraining Beijing’s emaciation of a regional rules-based order driven by principles of non-aggression, conflict-avoidance, and liberal multilateralism.
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U.S. Perspective on the South China Sea Order: Strategy Under the Trump Administration
By Colin Willet
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An Effect of Trump and More: The Emerging Retrenchment of China’s Strategic Posture
By Shi Yinhong
March 8, 2018

Philippine Military Pursues Territorial Defense Goals despite Rapprochement between the Philippines and China
By Renato Cruz De Castro
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