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Managing Maritime Power Projections in Southeast Asia: Suggestions for Improving the Region’s Collective Response

By Vu Hai Dang

November 7, 2023

This commentary reviews the strategies used by Southeast Asian States to deal with different categories maritime power projection in Southeast Asia to date and provide some suggestions on how they could improve their collective power to manage maritime power projection by external countries in the region.

Rising Trend of Maritime Power Projection in Southeast Asia: Perspective from Cambodia

By Chheang Vannarith

November 6, 2023

The rising trend of maritime power projection in Southeast Asia has sparked concerns among Southeast Asian countries. As major powers increase their naval presence and influence in the region, it becomes imperative for ASEAN to respond with a more robust collective ...

U.S.-China Maritime Power Play in Southeast Asia: Implications for Thailand

By Thapiporn Suporn

October 18, 2023

Myanmar's response to maritime power projection by superpowers in Southeast Asia

By Dr. Naing Swe Oo

October 12, 2023

The increasing strategic importance of maritime power projection has led to Southeast Asia, particularly Myanmar, taking measures to protect its interests and regional stability. Myanmar's response to maritime power projection by superpowers in Southeast Asia, particularly China and the United States, ...

Responding to Trends of Maritime Power Projection: Managing Mistrusts and Anticipating Future Scenarios - A Perspective from the Philippines

By Jay L Batongbacal

October 3, 2023

The U.S.-Vietnam Comprehensive Strategic Partnership Is Not All About China

By Nguyen Hung Son

September 25, 2023

The upgrade in ties was consistent with Hanoi’s longstanding goal of building a network of relationships with the region and the world.

Convergence and Divergence of Interests surrounding the Management of Maritime Power Projection in and around Southeast Asia: Indonesian Perspective

By Curie Maharani

September 18, 2023

The impact of the US and China projecting maritime power in Asian security runs along the continuum of low intensity conflict to war. While Southeast Asian states do not really refrain from employing their maritime security forces, including navy, as the ...

Glowing Vista: Synergizing New Momentum from Regional Minilateralism

By Vice Admiral Pradeep Chauhan, AVSM & Bar, VSM

May 20, 2023

On 06 September 2021, while delivering the “JG Crawford Oration-2021” organised by the Australian National University, Dr S Jaishankar, Minister for External Affairs, Government of India, stated quite unequivocally, “The days of unilateralism are over, bilateralism has its own limits and as ...

The Major Powers’ Relations in the South China Sea from Chinese Perspectives

By XIA Liping

April 5, 2023

The South China Sea is one of the most important maritime communications in the world, connecting the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean. About 50,000 merchant ships and nearly 50% of oil tankers of the world pass through the South China Sea ...

Europe in Crisis? No! Europe Braving Crisis.

By Libor Kutej

April 5, 2023

Presently, European countries face an accumulation of crises – the greatest challenges for European social stability and security in modern history. COVID-19 pandemic, illegal migration, energy crisis, disinformation campaigns, cyber-attacks and other means of hybrid influence became an everyday reality of ...

Big Power Rivalry, ASEAN’s Dilemmas and Strategic Situation in the South China Sea

By Ekaterina Koldunova

April 5, 2023

While Southeast Asia has been looking for the post-pandemic recovery the regional strategic situation continues to be defined by the rising tensions of big powers, primarily of China and the USA. These tensions are not new and emerge from the pre-pandemic ...

The South China Sea: Have the Positive Trends in 2020 Continued in 2021?

By Nguyen Hung Son, Do Hoang

July 28, 2021

South China Sea is the subject of interests far beyond the littoral states, for what happens in the South China Sea would have deep consequences elsewhere. Most states also clearly indicate preference to lawfare to other means of contestation, because a ...

How can the Republic of Korea promote a trilateral ROK-ASEAN-U.S. alignment?

By Thuc D. Pham

June 25, 2021

The geopolitical landscape of the Indo-Asia-Pacific is changing considerably, marked by growing strategic competition between major powers, particularly the U.S. and China, at the time of the mysterious Covid-19 pandemic spreading worldwide.

Major power competition in the South China Sea and  Southeast Asian responses

By Nguyen Hung Son

March 19, 2021

Major power competition, particularly the growing Sino-US multi-faceted rivalry characterized global politics in 2020. The South China Sea featured prominently in this rivalry in 2020.

Assessing China’s Crop Success in the South China Sea

By Hoang Do

July 30, 2020

China recently announced that it had successfully cultivated vegetables on Woody Island to meet food demand. But this crop serves more than a nutritional purpose.

Indonesian Awakening: No South China Sea Negotiation with China

By Nguyen Hong Thao

June 26, 2020

Any country that does not make a drastic response to the Chinese claims right from the start, will one day become a victim.

New South China Sea Frontline: Science Journals

By Nguyen Thuy Anh

June 17, 2020

Manipulating public opinion about the nine-dash line figure and enforcing it on the ground does no help in legitimizing China’s controversial claims. Yet, it is a type of information warfare which would have more complicated and long-lasting in China’s own perception ...

U.S. joins the battle of South China Sea diplomatic notes

By Nguyen Hong Thao

June 10, 2020

The US communication added a voice to the common position of Vietnam, Malaysia, Philippines and Indonesia on consideration of UNCLOS as the sole legal basis for defining, in a comprehensive and exhaustive manner, the scope of their respective maritime entitlements in ...

Vietnam’s increasing Naval Diplomacy and future Possibilities

By Tomas Jevsejevas

December 7, 2020

Vietnam is advancing Naval Diplomacy, and it could do much more.

Concert of Indo-Pacific: An Option for Peace and Order in the East Asian Seas

By Thuc D. Pham

May 6, 2020

Suggestions for lasting peace in the South China Sea and beyond need to incorporate small and medium states as well.

The “Four-Sha” Claim: Signalling a Post Covid-19 Global Order

By Quach Thi Huyen

November 26, 2020

"Four-Sha" is a lens through which Chinese long-term ambitious claims over the South China Sea is fully exposed. The current global health crisis provides a window of opportunity for the realisation of Chinese lofty hegemonic dream. While the international community may ...

Extended Continental Shelf: A Renewed South China Sea Competition

By Nguyen Hong Thao

April 17, 2020

The 2019 Malaysian partial CLCS submission renewed the legal exchanges over the South China Sea. Most of the claimants, except China and Brunei, through their statements and actions, expressed acceptance and support for the 2016 Tribunal Award.

A Short History of China’s Fishing Militia and What it May Tell Us

By Derek Grossman and Logan Ma

April 6, 2020

If history is a good indication of what to expect in the future, then Beijing is likely to double down on the Maritime Militia in virtually any scenario imaginable. That means it should be a force to be reckoned in the ...

Did Vietnam’s Maritime Militia Really Swarm a China Military Base

By Do Thanh Hai

March 18, 2020

Though recent allegations raise more questions than they provide answers, they should reinforce the need for greater transparency in the South China Sea.

China's Maritime Militia: A Legal Point of View

By Koki Sato

March 12, 2020

The international community should better understand how potential aggressors can leverage the ambiguity for low-level armed attack or aggression and be prepared to clearly identify it as an internationally wrongful act.

Philippine Fulcrum

By Aaron Kelly, Michael Tkacik

January 23, 2020

To strengthen its position in the Philippines and thus in the first island chain, the United States must achieve two key goals: diversify its diplomatic engagement with Manila and coordinate military resources and strategy.

Scarborough Shoal: Debunking Historical Myths

By Ulises Granados

December 22, 2019

As it might be difficult for China and the Philippines to defend their official claims over Scarborough as their own territory before the 20th century in an international court, both countries should engage in constructive negotiations over joint development. This is ...

Malaysia’s New Game in the South China Sea

By Nguyen Hong Thao

December 21, 2019

The submission by Malaysia represents a positive step forward for coastal states in the SCS to clarify their claims and seriously discuss maritime delimitation in accordance with UNCLOS and the interpretation of its article 121 (3) by the 2016 Tribunal Award.

Vietnam confronts China in the South China Sea

By Do Thanh Hai

December 6, 2019

As Vietnam stands its ground and attests to the legitimacy of its claims in public, the ball is in Beijing’s court to decide whether China wants to be a responsible emerging power.

Nightmare Scenario in the South China Sea: Japan’s Perspective

By Satoru Nagao

September 12, 2019

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe worried that the South China Sea might become a ‘Lake Beijing,’ ... a sea deep enough for PLA navy to base their nuclear-powered attack submarines, capable of launching missiles with nuclear warheads.

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