CRS Report for Congress Prepared for Members and Committees of Congress Mark E. Manyin Specialist in Asian Affairs Summary Since the mid-1990s, tensions have spiked periodically among Japan, China, and Taiwan over the disputed Senkaku (Diaoyu/ Diaoyutai) Islands in the East China Sea. These flare-ups run the risk, which most observers regard as remote, of […]
Carlyle A. Thayer The South China Sea is fast emerging as a regional hot spot as its contested waters become more congested raising the risk of a deadly naval engagement through misadventure. These risks are magnified by rising jingoism, resource nationalism and militarization. Tensions are rising as China presses its claims to all of the […]
By Walter Lohman , John Fleming and Robert Warshaw America’s Enduring Leadership in Asia America has been engaged in Asia since a few decades after securing its independence. Its early interest is documented in the 1833 Treaty on Amity and Commerce between the U.S. and the Kingdom of Siam Thailand), and later in the market-opening 1854 Treaty of Kanagawa with […]
Lyle J. Goldstein U.S.-China relations, difficult in the best of times, have lurched in a dangerous direction since 2009. Against the backdrop of a weakened global economy and sharpened ideological tensions, there has been a disturbing new atmosphere of crisis in East Asia over the last two years, with incidents occurring in greater frequency and […]
Abstract Having the world’s largest fishing fleet while facing depleting fishery resources in its inshore waters, China’s marine catch sector has been experiencing two major structural adjustments: a shift from inshore to offshore fishing and expanding Distant Water Fishing (DWF). The shift from inshore to offshore fishing is leading to growing illegal fishing operations by […]
The focus of this paper is to evaluate the necessity of long-range Maritime Patrol Aircraft (MPA) in UK Defence following its removal in the 2010 Strategic Defence and Security Review (SDSR). Open for public since 01 August 2012. Download PDF version- please be patient while loading Source
“Anti-Piracy and Humanitarian Operations” is the result from the first of a series of four workshops under the title International Order at Sea. Download for free. International Order at Sea Workshop Series 1/2012Title: Anti-Piracy and Humanitarian OperationsEditors: Jo Inge Bekkevold and Robert S. RossNumber of pages: 79 Download for free Given the last decade’s maritime cooperation in humanitarian assistance and disaster relief […]
Ronald O’Rourke Specialist in Naval Affairs Summary The question of how the United States should respond to China’s military modernization effort, including its naval modernization effort, has emerged as a key issue in U.S. defense planning. The question is of particular importance to the U.S. Navy, because many U.S. military programs for countering improved Chinese […]
This Article provides a political and legal roadmap of Kaplan’s majestic work [Monsoon], analyzing the most pressing issues affecting Indian Ocean security against the backdrop of international law. The Indian Ocean provides a look at regional politics from the maritime perspective, which is a fundamentally different lens than that obtained by focusing on the land terrain. At the intersection of […]
MaritimeSecurity.Asia in cooperation with Ministry of Defense (Japan). Presentation to: 2nd Tokyo Defense Forum Seminar Organized by the Ministry of Defense, Tokyo, Japan March 16, 2012 by Carlyle A. Thayer, Emeritus Professor, The University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra. E?mail: c.thayer@adfa.edu.au Threats and Challenges to Maritime Security There is no legal definition […]