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The author argues that UNCLOS is a priority for both the U.S. and the international community and that U.S. ratification will be a clear indication that the U.S. is still willing to play an international leadership role in the Trump administration.
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The author argues that the Trump administration's pause on Freedom of Navigation operations in the South China Sea to gain China's cooperation on North Korea is the right idea for the wrong reasons and proposes using this pause to put in place a more durable bilateral agreement.
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Keeping in line with its policy to conduct operations regularly in the South China Sea, the U.S. Navy is preparing to conduct a third freedom of navigation operation (FONOP) in the South China Sea in early April, Reuters reported on Saturday.
[ More ]Singapore has suggested the expansion of a key naval protocol to defuse tensions in the South China Sea, the country’s new foreign minister said yesterday on the final day of his maiden voyage to China.
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U.S. Chief of Naval Operations Admiral John Richardson is prepared to defend U.S. rights to navigate in the South China Seas with an upcoming Freedom of Navigation operations, arguing that no one owns the territory China is claiming.
[ More ]The author argues that the media is incorrectly characterizing routine operations as challenging China's territorial claims when they are actually being conducted to protect navigational rights under the Freedom of Navigation program.
[ More ]The author argues that if the U.S. wants to moderate Chinese adventurism in the South China Sea, it should ratify UNCLOS.
[ More ]In a pointed rebuke of China, India strongly advocates adherence to the Law of the Sea as the best way to resolve disputes in the South China Sea.
[ More ]China’s position paper published on December 7, 2014 is one of the rare documents in which Beijing officially expressed its opinions on the issues in the South China Sea, but may be driving the US and ASEAN into a ‘juridical alliance.’
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Ahead of Xi Jinping’s scheduled three-day visit to India, Indian President Pranab Mukherjee traveled to Vietnam for a state visit. At the conclusion of his trip to Vietnam, Mukherjee and his counterpart, Truong Tan Sang, issued a joint communique in which they jointly called for countries to stand for freedom of navigation in the disputed South China Sea.
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