Sajjad Ashraf, Former Adjunct Professor, National University of Singapore
Sep 05, 2016
While the U.S. calls for respect of the given ruling under the Law of the Sea Convention, of which the U.S. is not a signatory, none of the predicted responses from China and the Philippines have come true. On the contrary, both have opted for ‘strategic restraint,’ choosing to use dialogue in order to find common ground.
Aug 22, 2016
It is unlikely that the decision by The Hague on the Philippines case will settle all of these matters. That said, one can envision a path forward, beginning with an immediate freeze on all activities in the disputed territories. That would lower tensions, allowing everyone to take a deep breath.
Lucio Blanco Pitlo III, Research Fellow, Asia-Pacific Pathways to Progress
Aug 15, 2016
Connectivity is a shared interest for China and Southeast Asia, and the Maritime Silk Road represents part of the continuing efforts to highlight this. Southeast Asia is important for China’s neighborhood and periphery diplomacy; hence the management or resolution of regional concerns represents a continuing challenge for Chinese foreign policy.
- Former Chairman of the ILC Finds the UNCLOS Little to Offer to Decide on the Issues before the South
Zhao Long, Senior Fellow and Assistant Director, Institute for Global Governance Studies at SIIS
Jul 06, 2016
In an article entitled The South China Sea Arbitration (The Philippines v. China): Assessment of the Award on Jurisdiction and Admissibility recently published
Yi Fan, a Beijing-based writer on international affairs
Jun 17, 2016
On Tuesday, senior ASEAN diplomats gathered in Yunnan for a special foreign ministers' meeting with their Chinese counterparts. The idea came from ASEAN countries, the turnout was impressive, and the retreat was deemed "timely and important". Amidst media speculation that the discussion pitted ASEAN against China, it will be useful to take a step back and examine the larger picture.
Gong Ting, Research Fellow, China Institute of International Studies
Mar 16, 2016
Divergence and competition between the two major players has intensified as both economies and their business communities want to seize the initiative in developing a more profound and mutually beneficial economic relationship with ASEAN. But there is still room for win-win-win results in this tri-cornered interaction.
Lucio Blanco Pitlo III, Research Fellow, Asia-Pacific Pathways to Progress
Mar 09, 2016
With its thriving economy, accelerating integration and evolving challenges to the security environment, ASEAN is destined to become an increasingly important region of the world. Its population is bigger than the combined population of the U.S. and Japan, and it represents a major frontier market.
He Yafei, Former Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs
Mar 07, 2016
For Southeast and East Asia to have a favorable architecture, wherein all nations could aspire to common development and prosperity, it is necessary for both the U.S. and China to work closely with each other and with ASEAN.
Zhou Bo, Senior Fellow, Center for International Security and Strategy, Tsinghua University
Nov 24, 2015
Washington’s move to politicize this meeting simply reflects the growing frustration of a US that doesn’t know how to deal with China. This time it has taken a wrong approach to confront China at the wrong occasion. The result was not helpful in improving relations among the countries concerned.
Zha Daojiong, Professor, Peking University
Oct 28, 2015
Since the first China-Asean official dialogue in July 1991, when then foreign minister Qian Qichen attended the 24th Asean Post-Ministerial Conference as a consultative partner, the relationship between China and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations has grown into a multilayered web of ties.