By FRANK CHING HONG KONG — Unlike last year, when sparks flew at the ASEAN Regional Forum meeting after U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Washington had an interest in the resolution of territorial disputes in the South China Sea, this year’s 27-nation forum was relatively calm as China evidently sought to maintain …
Read more »07:33 GMT, August 18, 2011 The South Korean military is developing anti-ship cruise missiles, a news report said Wednesday, after sea trials of China’s first aircraft carrier sparked regional security concerns. Development of the supersonic missiles is expected to be complete in three or four years, Seoul’s Chosun Ilbo daily said. “Fully-fledged research on the …
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Read more »The term ‘incidents at sea’ encompasses a wide range of maritime activities and situations. It can include maritime encounters that are either deliberate or inadvertent and involve any combination of ships, submarines and aircraft from military, auxiliary and civil organisations of different countries – in this case, major powers of Indo-Pacific Asia. This paper focuses …
Read more »Taipei, Taiwan’s Defense Ministry said Wednesday it was closely monitoring the launch of China’s first aircraft carrier and China’s carrier development program, while a local scholar described the milestone for China’s navy as mostly symbolic. China’s official Xinhua News Agency reported Wednesday that the country’s first aircraft carrier “Varyag” — a revamped Soviet Union-era ship …
Read more »CALL FOR PAPERS The Australian Journal of Maritime and Ocean Affairs is a multidisciplinary peer?review journal, published four times a year, which addresses the wide range of maritime issues in Australia and the Indo?Pacific region. The editors plan to run two special editions over the next 12 months on port issues, as outlined below, and …
Read more »Taipei, Aug. 4 (CNA) A senior official said Thursday that the Republic of China has sovereignty over the South China Sea and that this sovereignty is non-negotiable. Liu Te-shun, vice chairman of the Mainland Affairs Council (MAC), made the statement when asked to comment if Taiwan will in the future need to negotiate with China …
Read more »Somali piracy remains worrisome, in spite of recent attempts to address a growing threat. This phenomenon affects global geo-strategic interests, as well as the lives and livelihoods of citizens across the world. Countries in Europe, Asia and America have become actively involved in seeking to deter and defeat the pirates militarily, including some not usually …
Read more »NEW DELHI: Having been delivered a wake-up blow from China, the government is scrambling to put together a policy on deep-sea mining for minerals in south and central Indian Ocean. Cabinet secretary A K Seth told a committee of secretaries in mid-July to start work on pushing Indian mining activity in southern and central Indian Ocean. On July …
Read more »U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has just ended her grand Eurasian tour with stops in Hong Kong and Shenzhen. Exhaustive as the trip was, Clinton delivered a number of messages on maintaining regional prosperity and international order. Her visit to Hong Kong and Shenzhen bore particular significance as she commended the Hong Kong system, …
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