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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 …

SEEKING PEACE AND STABILITY THROUGH PAPER WARS: THE SOUTH CHINA SEA CASE

Japan released its latest edition of Defense White Paper titled ‘Defense of Japan 2013’ on July 9, 2013. While describing the Defense Policies of Countries which possibly affect the Security Environment Surrounding Japan, the paper contended…

JOINT HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE AND DISASTER RELIEF (HADR) EXERCISES: EFFECTIVE INSTRUMENTS IN FURTHERING REGIONAL DEFENSE COOPERATION IN ASIAN CONTEXT

The first-ever joint Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief and Military Medicine (HADR & MM) Exercise under the auspices of the ‘ASEAN Defense Ministers Meeting Plus’ (ADMM+), was conducted with great professionalism from June…

NEW MARITIME LAWS IN THE SOUTH CHINA SEA: PORTENDS FOR FURTHER INSTABILITY?

The Vietnamese National Assembly passed a ‘Law on Vietnamese Sea’[1] on June 21, 2012, which provides legal basis for defining its internal waters, territorial waters, the contiguous zone, the exclusive economic zones (EEZ), continental…

FOUR YEARS OF ANTI-PIRACY MISSION: CHINESE NAVY’S SHOWCASE ACHIEVEMENT

The Chinese Navy celebrated the fourth anniversary of its ongoing anti-piracy escort mission and patrols in the Gulf of Aden and waters off the Somali coast on December 26, 2012 with great fanfare and wide publicity. The three Peoples’ Liberation…

CHINA’S ‘HEAVENLY PALACE’: GREAT STRIDES IN MANNED SPACE MISSION

China’s unmanned spacecraft Shenzhou-8 was successfully sent into space from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre on board a Long March-2F rocket on November 1, 2011. Shenzhou, which means ‘magic vessel,’ finally achieved a historic…

‘MILITARY OPERATIONS OTHER THAN WAR’ (MOOTW): NON-TRADITIONAL ROLE OF THE PLA NAVY TOWARDS ‘PEACEFUL DEVELOPMENT’ OF CHINA

Many an international eyebrow has been raised at the rapid pace of the Chinese defence modernisation over the last decade. The US has been an active proponent in questioning the Chinese ‘Peaceful Rise’, a term used for the very first time…

CHINESE DILEMMA OVER RESURGENCE OF SOUTH CHINA SEA DISPUTE

The South China Sea and the issues of sovereign rights therein between China and Vietnam have again surfaced since the May 26, 2011 incident when the Chinese maritime patrol ships ventured into the Vietnamese Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) and…

THE LIBYAN CRISIS – NON-TRADITIONAL CHALLENGES FOR THE MILITARY FORCES

The ‘Jasmine Revolution’ that started in Tunisia on 17 December 2010 and resulted in the Regime change by peoples’ power, has also spread into the other regions in North Africa. Egypt followed suit thereafter and President Hosni Mubarak…

SINO-US ‘SHADOW BOXING’ IN THE WESTERN PACIFIC OCEAN: AN ASSESSMENT OF THE CURRENT DEVELOPMENTS IN THE SOUTH CHINA SEA AND YELLOW SEA

Towards the end of August, the US and South Korea on one hand and China on the other, have announced the conduct of naval exercises in the Yellow Sea and the adjoining waters, in assertion of their maritime rights and interests in the region.…

‘KUNLUNSHAN’ IN THE GULF OF ADEN – PLA NAVY CHANGES OPERATIONAL TACK?

The PLA Navy’s first indigenous Landing Platform Dock (LPD) ship of Yuzhao class named ‘Kunlunshan’ arrived in the Gulf of Aden on Jul 13, 2010 for its maiden overseas deployment. The ship, along with another destroyer ‘Lanzhou’…

CHINA CELEBRATES NATIONAL DAY AMIDST TIGHT SECURITY: WHOM IS THE DRAGON AFRAID OF?

China celebrated the 60th anniversary of its founding on October 01, 2009 with an awe-inspiring military parade, which set a record of sorts in the number and variety of parade elements, armaments and weapons systems that were put on display.…