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SOUTH CHINA SEA RECLAMATIONS: CHINA MAKES ‘PUBLIC GOODS’ ARGUMENT

Earlier this month, during the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) and Foreign Ministers’ Meetings of the East Asia Summit (EAS) meetings in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, the Chinese Foreign Minister Wang …

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THE US-JAPAN ALLIANCE: JAPAN’S SECURITY PROVIDER?

The Security Environment in East Asia The East China Sea dispute presents a major challenge for the US-Japan alliance. This dispute is over the Senkaku (Diayou in Chinese) Islands, a group of five islands in the East China Sea that are uninhabited…

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MARITIME CYBER ATTACKS ARE A REALITY

The International Maritime Organisation’s (IMO) initiatives to ensure physical safety and security of maritime infrastructure have proven successful and a number of regulatory mechanisms are …

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ROHINGYA CRISIS: A NEW PARADIGM FOR NAVIES

A humanitarian crisis in the Bay of Bengal has attracted international attention; over 4,000 Rohingya migrants, also referred to as the ‘boat people’, embarked on rickety vessels have been…

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WORLD OCEANS DAY

World Ocean Day (WOD), celebrated on 08 June every year, brings an opportunity to raise global awareness of the impacts of human actions on the ocean, and to mobilize support for sustainable global ocean management. It was first proposed…

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CHINA CHALLENGES THE UNIPOLAR WORLD ORDER: AN ASSESSMENT OF CHINA’S DEFENCE WHITE PAPER 2014

China has been issuing Defence White Papers biennially since 1998. The ninth White Paper of 2014 titled ‘China's Military Strategy’ was released recently in May 2015. This essay seeks to analyse the salient aspects…

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CAN ASEAN PREVENT THE INEVITABLE IN THE SOUTH CHINA SEA?

The 26th ASEAN Summit concluded in Kuala Lumpur on 27 April 2015 with the ministers once again ‘sharing concerns’ over the outstanding maritime territorial disputes in the …