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Southeast Asian leaders have made clear their priorities this week. Some want more focus on climate change than geopolitical competition.
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Understanding China’s perspectives on ocean governance – and where they come from – is vital to forging a path forward on disputes over contested waters.
Rolling out the red carpet for presidents Joe Biden and Xi Jinping.
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It’s good to talk − just don’t expect it to result in a reset in relations between Beijing and Washington.
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Given Australia has recently sought to steady its rocky relationship with China, this cooperation with the Philippines could come at a cost.
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The mention of the Falklands/Malvinas territorial dispute in an EU document shows that, post-Brexit, Brussels no longer feels beholden to toe the UK’s line on sovereignty.
Actor Margot Robbie blows out a candle on the cake to celebrate her birthday during the pink carpet event for the movie ‘Barbie’ in Seoul, South Korea, in July 2023.
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Once the context of cultural and territorial appropriation by China in Southeast Asia are understood, Vietnam’s ban of the Barbie movie isn’t surprising.
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Maps can be very touchy subjects. That’s why Vietnam has banned the Barbie movie.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken joins government officials from the U.S. and China during a meeting with China’s President Xi Jinping at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on June 19, 2023.
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The US and China are engaged in a classic power struggle. The question is, who will come out on top?
The USS Chung-Hoon observes a Chinese navy ship cross into its path.
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What was behind the latest encounter between US and Chinese military vessels in contested waters?
A Marine amphibious assault vehicle takes part in a 2019 joint U.S.-Philippines exercise.
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The South China Sea is of strategic and economic importance to Beijing and the US, setting up a potential power struggle that could spark conflict.
U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, center, arrives at a military camp in Quezon City, Philippines, on Feb. 2, 2023.
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The agreement lets the US expand its access across military bases in the Philippines, unfolding a new chapter in the countries’ long military history.
Biden and Kishida: A relationship far from flagging.
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The meeting is the first between the leaders since Japan outlined a more assertive defense strategy in December.
Chinese President Xi Jinping (left) and Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen.
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Indonesia’s reluctance to respond to the conflict is based on the fact that its economy is still very dependent on China.
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Our analysis is the first commissioned by the Department of Defence on the specific threat of prolonged maritime supply-chain disruptions due to conflict in the South China and East China seas.
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While there are good reasons not to exaggerate these events, the bad news is these incidents are almost certain to continue. But we shouldn’t frame them as if we’re in the brink of war.
Activists hold slogans as they protest against Chinese aggression in the South China Sea outside the Chinese consulate in Makati, Philippines in November 2021.
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China is posing many challenges to the Indo-Pacific region in 2022. How should Canada and Australia respond?
A military officer salutes during a parade to commemorate the anniversary of the founding of Communist China in Beijing.
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Hugh White warns of a potential war between the US and China, drawing lessons from the first and second world wars to explore how Australia might respond to such a conflict – and where to draw a line.
Leaders of the ‘Quad’ alliance, including new member, Australian prime minister Anthony Albanese, left.
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The security landscape in the Asia-Pacific region is shifting in the face of China’s increasingly assertive foreign policy.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks during the International Migration Review Forum on May 19, 2022, at United Nations headquarters in New York.
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The West isn’t exactly diligent about following international rules of law. It conveniently ignores or sidesteps global rules-based order when it’s convenient.
The USS Ronald Reagan and USS Nimitz sailing in the South China Sea in July 2020.
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China and the US have differing interpretations of the law of the sea – and this is fuelling deep distrust and suspicion.