Indian Ocean Region: Hedging against Chinese expansionism
Amid the euphoria of what will be an historic movement for the Palestine struggle for recognition by the UN, was a news item in the Times of India that grasped for attention. It was the news of a new troika building up around the Indian Ocean. It is indeed a first step towards a trilateral...
China and its Territorial Disputes: An irritant in Asia’s front yard
China has a rather inimitable style of irritating its neighbours. They brush you by the side and then glance sideways as if nothing really happened. You stare back at them and they turn around to scowl. It seems to be a 21st century country stuck in an 18th or 19th century mentality –browbeating its neighbours....
South China Sea Crisis: Risking “Asia’s Palestine”
Amid growing tension between China and other countries in the region over territorial dispute in the South China Sea, the outgoing ASEAN Secretary-General Surin Pitsuwan warned that the dispute would turn the region into “Asia’s Palestine”. Pitsuwan said this in an interview with Financial Times published on November 27, 2012. Coming as it is from...
China basking in ASEAN disunity
At the ASEAN Summit on Monday (November 19), the fault lines of unity in east Asia lay bare as Philippines publicly disagreed with Cambodia over discussing the vexing territorial claims in South China Sea by China that overlap those of several Southeast Asian countries and Taiwan. Whereas, Japan and other south East Asian countries which...
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