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South China Sea

Maritime disputes

Maritime disputes across the vast South China Sea have ratcheted up in recent years as an increasingly assertive China militarises disputed islands and confronts its regional rivals over their competing claims in the strategically important and resource-rich waterway.

China renews alert for typhoon Khanun

China's National Meteorological Centre on Saturday rnewed a blue alert as typhoon Khanun, the sixth typhoon this year, continues to move northeast on the East China Sea.

Choppy sea

It is now clear that as the United States of America and India embark on a relationship characterized by both as among the closest partnerships in the world, New Delhi will find itself engaged in geostrategic essays that did not feature high on its agenda until recently.

The world vs China?

China faces global criticism for hiding details of the pandemic, enabling travel from Wuhan to all parts of the globe leading to its global spread while blocking internal movement from affected areas, thus slowing domestic cases. Its claim that the virus existed in parts of the globe before emerging in China is ignored

Suga and Asia

Vietnam is a popular choice for Japanese firms. It is seen as the site of the next economic miracle having registered consistent high economic growth despite the pandemic. Half of the 30 Japanese firms that used a 23.5 billion yen ($222.9 million) government stimulus package to diversify supply chains in Southeast Asia targeted Vietnam

Lesson from Manila

Speaking to the global body this week, Mr Duterte asserted that the ruling of the tribunal “is now part of international law, beyond compromise and beyond the reach of passing governments to dilute, diminish or abandon”.

Rebuffing China

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) did try to initiate a dialogue, but a robust denunciation of China’s defiance of international law was not forthcoming.