Jul 31,2015 Special Forum

The South China Sea Disputes: Some Blindspots and Misperceptions

The South China Sea disputes have in recent years emerged as, arguably, the most contentious issue on the security agenda in Southeast Asia. Fueled by heated rhetoric, mutual distrust, perceptions and misperceptions, and nationalism, it has become the most extensively discussed subject in the literature on security challenges in Southeast Asia, with experts expressing different, […]

Liow Joseph Chinyong*
EEZ , intra-ASEAN disputes , Regionalism , UNCLOS , US security
Sep 29,2014 National Commentaries

A South Korean Perspective

"Reassessing the Park-Xi Summit"   In recent months, pundits in Washington and Tokyo talk or insinuate quite a bit about the so-called “Seoul-in-the-China-orbit” thesis. From this author’s perspective, however, much of it has been blown out of proportion. Granted that, during the last year or so, it was common to hear that South Korea-China relations […]

Chung Jae Ho*
EEZ , missile defense , national interests. strategic suspicion , overblown expectations , TPP , track 1.5 meeting