One of the main sources of tension in Asia nowadays are the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea, where the Philippines, Vietnam, China, and others have confl

No single country in the world has sufficient resources to ensure complete safety of the oceans. China-US cooperation will not only achieve win-win results, but also be beneficial to other countries. The potential range of cooperation covers joint maritime search and rescue, and peace keeping over the sea, etc. as well as jointly fighting traditional and non-traditional security threats on the ocean.

The recent escalation of tensions in the South China Sea once again brought the decades-long territorial dispute to the brink of a violent confrontation that re

Recently the “China Threat” School has focused on the South China Sea as the point of US-China’s most evident flashpoint – and a likely challenge to US infl

It is summertime, and everyone is out sailing on the South China Sea. Unfortunately, the waters have gotten a bit choppy.  The Philippines and Vietnam, in part

In July 2010, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton addressed reporters after attending the 17th ministerial meeting of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations

As a great state with vast territory and a long coastline, China’s development depends heavily on the oceans for commerce, security and resources. It regards a

Since the early 1990s when China drew up its policies dealing with countries within the South China Sea, it has adopted a conciliatory approach to economic and

Washington fears the strategic situation in the Asia-Pacific is subtly changing in China's favor, potentially resulting in  the United States losing soft p

It has been “normal” for  China-US relations to  suffer from turbulence over the past few decades. The two countries have often collaborated on  common int