The Strait of Malacca: Conditionality Contained?

Australia Navigates Strategic Vacuum in Indo-Pacific

Why Maritime Strain Is Becoming a Global Governance Problem

The Philippines’ Legal Offensive and the Evolving Lawfare in the South China Sea: Anticipating International Legal Pathways and China’s Strategic Responses

China, APEC must pursue openness, cooperation

Securing China-US Relations within the Wider Asia-Pacific

Debunking the “Winning” Narrative: a Reality Check on the South China Sea

Viability of UNCLOS amid Emerging Global Maritime Challenges

MAP Spotlight: J-35A Stealth Fighter

Navigating the Arctic Shifts

Media Manipulation and Strategic Tension: The Philippines’ Role in the South China Sea Dispute

With Kishida’s Resignation, Japan Brings More Economic Uncertainties to Asia in a U.S. Election Year

Global Times Interview: China’s ‘economic miracle’ was forged under conditions of openness

Legal moves turn South China Sea into a public image battleground

Rivalries aside, it’s vital for US and Chinese navies to keep talking

MAP Spotlight: Hainan

Biden’s New Trade Row with China is more than just Election Gimmicks

MAP Spotlight: Unmanned Underwater Vehicles

Taking Down “Made-in-China” Cranes Cannot Address U.S. Weakness in The Shipping Industry

Spy cranes or not, the U.S. will come after China’s shipping industry

Event Summary: Is the US-China relationship America’s most consequential bilateral relationship?, Brookings

2024-The South China Sea at a Crossroads: More Unilateral Actions Ahead (9DASHLINE In Forum)

Securing China-US Relations within the Wider Asia-Pacific

Event Summary: The Future of U.S.-China Relations, Council on Foreign Relations

Navigating U.S.-China Maritime Relations

US-China Global Maritime Relations

Event Summary: Beyond the SCIF: Countering Chinese Influence Operations on American Soil, Hudson Institute

India: Forsaking Strategic Autonomy for Strategic Alignment in the Indo-Pacific

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MAP Spotlight: Air Interception and Close Encounters

Event Summary: Dennis Wilder on Stabilizing U.S.-China Relations

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China and the United States in the South Pacific Ocean: Will Strategic Competition or Practical Cooperation Drive the Future Development

MAP Spotlight: Joint Naval Exercise

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Will the US Permit the ROK its Own Nuclear Deterrent?

Thoughts on the oil price cap and its impact on China’s energy security

The New Marcos Administration

Challenges and Expectations for the Conservation and Restoration of Seagrass beds as Blue Carbon Ecosystems

Encyclopedia of Ocean Law and Policy in Asia-Pacific: China

Destined to Disappoint: The Quad as Part of the United States’ Indo-Pacific Strategy

The Philippines under Marcos Jr: Playing the US card to deal with China

U.S.-Pacific Island Country Summit: Geopolitics trumps development

China–US rivalry no new Cold War

Taiwan Wargame Simulations Could Exacerbate U.S. Strategic Miscalculation

The U.S. View on ‘Historic Rights’ within the Nine Dash Line

It is What You Make of It

Limits in the Seas No. 150 and the U.S.’s Misinterpretation of ‘Historic Rights’

General Wei Fenghe’s Address at the 2022 Shangri-La Dialogue

Secretary Lloyd Austin’s Address at the 2022 Shangri-La Dialogue

Do not strand U.S.-China relations in the Taiwan Strait

Marine Protected Areas in the High Seas: A Multilateral Resolution and Unilateral Quandary for Blue Carbon Conservation

Indo-Pacific between economic growth, technological competition and security

Whirlwind round of US diplomacy leaves China relations in unknown territory

Has the Quad passed its peak?

What do the Upcoming Australian Elections Mean for U.S.-China Relations?

The South Pacific Ocean: Another battleground for China-US competition?

A Vision of Action on Marine Plastic Debris in the Asia-Pacific

The Quad’s maritime rule of law hypocrisy

Weighing the Sources of International Law

Quad’s India Problem: No Different From Beijing

Encyclopedia of Public International Law in Asia: China

The Taiwan Question as a Bipartisan Bridge on U.S.-China Relations

Australia’s ‘China-has-changed’ narrative doesn’t explain damagingly bad ties

The South China Sea Arbitration Award Five Years Later

Security, Strategy, and Military Dynamics in the South China Sea: Cross-National Perspectives

The Quad is not an Asian NATO, but could it be?

China’s Approach to Ocean Governance: Multilateralism Based Policy and Practice

Decoding President-Elect Joe Biden’s China Strategy

Supporting ASEAN’s Centrality and Neutrality, Neutralizing U.S. Indo-Pacific Strategy

The US Approach to Joint Development in the South China Sea

Not Friend, Not Foe: Reassessing U.S.-China Great Power Competition with the Hydrangea Framework

Quadrilateral home truths

Hong Kong National Security Law

Ocean Governance in the Asia-Pacific and the Arctic: Regional Practice and Lessons Learned

Hong Kong’s high degree of autonomy in the balance

Punishing Hong Kong to Spite China: U.S.’ Problematic 2020 Hong Kong Policy Act Report

Book Review, International Negotiation: A Process of Relational Governance for International Common Interest

Seizing the moment at the WHO

COVID 19’s Fallout: An Accelerator of Renewed U.S.-China Great Power Strategic Competition

Viral Mistruths: Separating Fact from Fiction Regarding China’s Early COVID-19 Response

The Many Rights and Few Wrongs of China’s Early Coronavirus Response

Why is the Media Experiencing an Accountability Deficit?

India is Not the Indo-Pacific Strategy’s Silver Bullet

Looking East to Contain COVID-19

Forget the V in COVID-19: What Institutional Economic Responses are Ignoring

Turbulence on the horizon in the South China Sea?

Pursuing U.S.-China Cooperation in the Space Domain

ICAS Scholars Develop an Ongoing Database to Characterize both the Coverage and Response to COVID-19 by the West

Jakarta Should Not Dismiss Beijing’s ‘Historic Rights’ Claim

Despite Phase 1 trade deal, some US-China decoupling may get underway

Deconstructing US-China Decoupling

‘Leadership…with Chinese Characteristics’ – Analysis by William J. McCahill at NBR

Freedom of Navigation: Where to Go When the Political Agenda Overshadows Legal Substance

Refusing to bite the bullet

Indo-Pacific Strategy and China’s Response

China-India Relations: Restoring Maritime Commons

Historic Fishing Rights in Foreign Exclusive Maritime Zones: Preserved or Proscribed by UNCLOS?

The East China Sea Tracker

How Natural Stone Prices Are Affected by U.S- China Trade War

China’s Belt and Road Initiative: A Watershed Moment in the Future of Climate Change

Why We Should Worry About the U.S.’s Increasing Engagement with Mekong Countries

‘Reform and Opening Up’ Reloaded

China and the G20 in the Age of ‘Messy Multilateralism’

China, G20 and The Future of Multilateralism

Asia Policy Assembly: Keynote Address, Plenary Session on U.S.-China Competition — A Summary

The South China Sea Maritime Tracker

China-India Ties: Modi and the Renewal of Defence of India

Neo-Maoism: A Growing Ideology or a Niche Subculture?

Managing Reiwa era expectations

Who is winning the trade war?

Lessons from the Recent Thaw in Sino-US Relations

China-European Union Economic Ties

A New Foreign Investment Regime for a New Era of Socialist Modernization

Trump touts economic success, but is that what North Korea wants?

China’s Stake in the Trump-Kim Summit

Trump-Kim Vietnam Summit: An End to the Korean War?

Hitting its stride: on the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank

The Ingredients of China’s Reform and Opening-Up Success

China-India Boundary: Rules for a Resolution

Trump’s Vanishing Act Sours Asia Ties Just As China Hits A Sweet Spot

The China Angle to INF Withdrawal is Off

PacNet #73 – China-Vatican Accord: Is it Time for the Dalai Lama to Return to Tibet?

Japan-India: Gulf in Strategic Precepts

Pence’s Speech: Key Turning Point or a Play for the Midterms?

The Pope has Kissed and Made Up with China. Can the Dalai Lama?

From Trade War to Cold War

Trump’s New Rules on Chinese Investment Screening

What a navy ship stranded on a South China Sea shoal reveals about China-Philippine relations

Freedom of Navigation: A Lost Legal Doctrine

ASEAN and China should seize the opportunity in the South China Sea

Trump Joined China Trade and North Korea at the Hip, Each Now Drags the Other Down

The NDAA chill to US-China Strategic Ties

Is Trump killing nuclear arms control or can he broker deals with North Korea and Russia to make the world a safer place?

China Scores with ASEAN Play as Trump’s America Loses its Way in South China Sea

China must lead trade, investment multilateralism at the WTO

China and US must meet halfway on investment and technology ties

US and China: who tried to avert a trade war and who forced it?

Defensive or Not, Trump’s China Tariffs are Illegal and Must Be Suspended

Trump-Kim Statement Isn’t Vague – It’s Just Flexible Enough to Work

The Art of the China Deal

Archipelagic Regime in the South China Sea: A Debate on the Rights of Continental States’ Outlying Archipelagos

India’s Actions in the South China Sea Will Speak Louder than its Words

Xi Jinping and Narendra Modi have Jump-Started a New Era in China-India Ties

The Two Korea’s Tryst With Destiny

The South China Sea Arbitration: A Test for the Efficacy of Compulsory Mechanism of UNCLOS

Maritime Order and the Law in East Asia

Paper Tigers

China-US Trade War – Look Closely – Trump has Zero Ammo

China-ASEAN relations in the South China Sea: Persistent features and obstacles to cooperation

Will the US’ new nuclear policies spark an arms race with China?

Washington Must Own up to Superpower Competition With China

Locked and Loaded, China and the US are Marching Into a Trade War

Previewing Issues in 2018: Trump’s DPRK Policy | U.S.-China Trade | The South China Sea

Can US Pessimism and Chinese Optimism Find Common Ground?

ICAS Preview: The South China Sea in 2018

ICAS Preview: U.S.-China Trade in 2018

ICAS Preview: Trump’s 2018 DPRK Policy

How Much Will the South China Sea Remain Critical for China-US Relations?

Trump’s State Visit to China

The Real Reason the US Hasn’t Tried to Shoot Down a North Korean Missile

US-India defense ties: setting the table for Secretary Mattis’ visit to New Delhi

Maritime Confidence Building Measures in the South China Sea

What South China Sea Rivals Can Learn From the Doklam Border Dispute

Why a US military strike against North Korea would be disastrous

Breaking Down the North Korea Crisis

Forget the Chatter, ASEAN-China Relations are Actually Stable

Unwinding the China-India Standoff in the Sikkim Himalayas

New Report Chapter – Post-Arbitration South China Sea: China’s Legal Policy Obligations and Future Prospects

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Trump’s Emerging South China Sea Policy

Global Development with Chinese Characteristics

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What China’s Belt and Road has to learn from 1920s America

Maximum Pressure, Deferred Engagement: The Trump Administration’s Approach to the North Korea Conundrum

Uncertainty in ASEAN-China-US Relations on the South China Sea

The Mar-a-Lago Meeting in Context

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Donald Trump is Second-Guessing the United States’ China Policy–America’s China Experts are Too

Trump, Trade, and U.S.-China Economic Relations

Tillerson’s Brush with South China Sea History

China Takes Over the Reins of Globalization from the West

Does China’s Military Buildup in the South China Sea Threaten U.S. Security?

Interpreting and Misinterpreting the Obama Pivot

Will Trump Turn America’s Back on Asia?

How Trump’s Taiwan Gambit could Suck Japan, Korea into a War

Has Obama’s Pivot been Weak? That Depends on Who you Ask

The South China Sea Arbitral Tribunal Award: Political and Legal Implications for China

US-Asia Relations in the Age of Trump

Donald Trump’s Foreign Policy and China: What do We Know?

NISCSS Report on the Military Presence of the United States of America in the Asia-Pacific Region (2016)

Understanding Donald Trump’s Victory: Implications for US-Asia Relations

Back to Basics in Asia

The Belt and Road Initiative and the US-China Relationship

Can Abe and Putin negotiate a draw in their territorial disputes?

China Must Pursue Global Monetary Reform as BRICS Chair

FONOPs in the South China Sea

American Perspectives on the Belt and Road Initiative

Trump and Clinton: Unpredictability vs the Status Quo in US-China Relations

Sino-Indian Maritime Affairs in the Asian Century

Crisis in the World Order: The Result of Three Major Transformations

No Restraint: Judicial Activism in the South China Sea Arbitration Ruling

G20 Meeting in Hangzhou

Asia’s Future: Become Another Middle East or Avoid South China Sea War

The South China Sea: Post-Arbitral Policy Considerations

The South China Sea Dilemma: A Political Game of International Law

The Regional Implications of Philippines v. China for ASEAN and China

Why China is Right to Say No to the South China Sea Ruling

American Liberalism and American Exceptionalism: Implications for US-China Relations

THAAD Deployment in South Korea

The South China Sea: China Won’t Accept Cursory Judgement of its Inherent Rights

Is the US Treasury Measuring the Trade Imbalance with China Correctly?

Future Directions for US-China Relations: An Emerging Dual Leadership Structure

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Liberal America, Illiberal China, and the “Liberal” International Order

Keys to the Evolution of Regional Order in East Asia

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Fishing Freedoms on the Hook in Indonesia-China Legal Dispute

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China-US Relations and the May 2016 Philippine Elections

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Philippines v China: Putting the Status Cart Before the Sovereignty Horse

The South China Sea: A Place for Handshakes, not Arm-Wrestling

The Need to Avoid Incidents at Sea

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The Problem with American “Engagement” with China

UN Convention on the Law of the Sea and the South China Sea

The Post-Hearing Reality in the South China Sea Arbitration Case

US Ambivalence in the South China Sea

The South China Sea Spats: An Alternative View

Contrasting Principles in US and Chinese Visions of International Order

Messages from China’s National Defense White Paper

The Problem with the Thucydides Trap

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The Post-Reclamation Scenario in the South China Sea: the Role of China and the United States

Provoking China on South China Sea Issues is a Dangerous Tactic

China’s Newly Formed Coast Guard and Its Implication for Regional Maritime Disputes

Recent Developments in the South China Sea Dispute: the Prospect of a Joint Development Regime

Non-Traditional Security Issues and the South China Sea: Shaping a New Framework for Cooperation

Behind the South China Sea Disputes

Securing the Safety of Navigation in East Asia: Legal and political dimensions

Solving Disputes for Regional Cooperation and Development in the South China Sea: A Chinese perspective

UNCLOS and Ocean Dispute Settlement: Law and Politics in the South China Sea