Fiasco at ASEAN-China summit on South China Sea: Who is to blame?
Facebook0TwitterReddit0LinkedinemailBy Loke Hoe Yeong The regional grouping ASEAN had its second historical moment of disarray when it failed to issue a joint statement on their…
South China Sea dispute
Duterte: A president for the wrong time?
Facebook0TwitterReddit0LinkedinemailBy Loke Hoe Yeong The president-elect of the Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte, met with his cabinet for the first time yesterday (15 June), which was also…
Planting of Philippine flag on South China Sea shoal fails
Facebook0TwitterReddit0LinkedinemailUPDATE: ASEAN Today notes the latest eyewitness accounts which have disputed that the Philippine flag was not planted successfully. The article has since been amended…
Malaysia and China: Strange bedfellows on the South China Sea?
Facebook0TwitterReddit0LinkedinemailBy Holly Reeves In public, Malaysia and China are friends, seeking amicable solutions to the region’s sensitive territorial politics. In business, they are partners –…
China: the target of US’s lifting of arms sales ban on Vietnam?
Facebook0TwitterReddit0LinkedinemailBy Loke Hoe Yeong Since US President Barack Obama’s announcement of the US’s decision to lift the ban on arms sale on Vietnam during his…
Will the South China Sea conflict ever be resolved?
Facebook0TwitterReddit0LinkedinemailBy Sarah Caroline Bell The verdict in the case of The Philippines v China is expected to be made public later this month. But what…
With Russia, a new power for Philippines’ next president to contend with?
Facebook0TwitterReddit0LinkedinemailBy Timothy Misir, in Moscow For ASEAN Today One of the foreign policy challenges facing Philippine’s incoming president Rodrigo Duterte is balancing the country’s security relations with the US,…
With Duterte, will the South China Sea be on the brink of war?
Facebook0TwitterReddit0LinkedinemailBy Loke Hoe Yeong Just days after the victory of Rodrigo Duterte in the Philippine presidential election, the Philippines and France have signed a defence…
Why is Rodrigo Duterte friendly to China but yet so popular?
Facebook0TwitterReddit0LinkedinemailBy Loke Hoe Yeong Today (9 May), Filipinos go to the polls to elect their next president. The latest opinion polls show Rodrigo Duterte strengthening…
China or the US – who’s splitting ASEAN apart over the South China Sea?
Facebook0TwitterReddit0LinkedinemailBy Loke Hoe Yeong Two senior Singaporean diplomats this week hit out at China for trying to “divide ASEAN” and for “interfering in the domestic…