Who is he? Le Luong Minh is an experienced foreign policy practitioner with a strong strategic bent who was educated in India and earned his diplomatic spurs in high level roles in Europe and New York. He is currently Vietnam’s…
South China Sea
Friday Five: November 30, 2012
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China’s leadership on Hainan Island announced that police may begin boarding vessels that sail through EEZ’s in the South China Sea. In today’s Thoughts from the Chairman CSIS Freeman Chair Chris Johnson analyzes the challenges Xi Jinping faces in finding…
China’s Domestic Pressures Shape Assertive Foreign Policy
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By Jennie Welch For decades, the term “core interest” has been applied by the Chinese government to issues related to its territorial integrity, issues such as Tibet and Taiwan. Territorial integrity is an essential aspect of the Chinese state’s identity…
China’s U-shaped Line as a Claim to Maritime Space?
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By Huy Duong In 1948 China published a map titled “South China Sea Islands Location Map” with a U-shaped line, but to date it has not clarified the line’s meaning. While the obvious interpretation of this line is a claim…
CSIS Asia Team Mega Event Series Recap
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Over the past two weeks our CSIS Asia Team hosted a series of high profile events on developments in the Asia-Pacific and the implications for U.S. foreign policy. Here at cogitASIA On Monday, September 24 CSIS Senior Vice President for…
South China Sea Disputes: Diplomacy Key to Calming Troubled Waters
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By Michael Vatikiotis Recent arguments between ASEAN member states who are claimants to parts of the South China Sea and China, which claims sovereignty over almost the entire maritime area, have seriously upset the strategic equilibrium of the region. Temperatures…
CNOOC Pulls Back the Curtain
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By Greg Poling [Editor’s note: This post is the second in cogitASIA’s new blog series, The South China Sea Frame-by-Frame. It incorporates data and imagery from the CSIS Southeast Asia Program’s innovative policy tool, The South China Sea in High…
China’s Coercive Economic Diplomacy – A New and Worrying Trend
by Bonnie S. Glaser • • 5 Comments
By Bonnie Glaser When the 10 member nations of ASEAN failed to reach agreement on the wording of a joint communiqué for the first time in 45 years, most pundits blamed this year’s ASEAN chair, Cambodia, for failing to forge…
Behind the Scenes of ASEAN’s Breakdown
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By Carl Thayer [Editor’s Note: Dr. Carl Thayer is one of the distinguished scholar mavens who tracks developments in Asia, particularly Southeast Asia. His description of the widely discussed AMM meeting in Phnom Penh makes for fascinating reading. With his…
Kerry Resolution: Senators Urge ASEAN to Develop Binding Code of Conduct
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[Editors Note: Per the Senate Foreign Relations Committee’s Press Release yesterday following ASEAN’s failure to release a joint communique last week, which you can read about on cogitASIA here, Senator John Kerry introduced a resolution with bi-partisan support.] The Kerry…