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Report: Increased Chinese Patrols in the South China Sea Have Done Little to Discourage Rivals’ Oil Exploration
Chinese maritime authorities increased their patrols in the South China Sea by 15% in 2024 compared to the previous year, according to new data from the Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative (AMTI) at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C., particularly in waters contested by the ...
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New Dataset Reveals the Extent Beijing is Determined to Enforce South China Sea Territorial Claims
The Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C. released an update to its South China Sea interactive dataset that provides a visual overview of the key factors fueling the current crisis. The AMTI tool ...
Tracking the Movements of China’s Maritime Militia in the South China Sea
China sharply increased the deployment of its informal, ostensibly civilian fleet of fishing vessels known as its "maritime militia" that helps assert territorial claims in the South China Sea, according to new data from the Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative (AMTI) at the Center for Strategic and International ...
China’s Maritime Research Has Military Role: Report
The government of Sri Lanka announced in early January that it is imposing a one-year ban on Chinese research vessels docking at its ports. Last year, Colombo got into a spat with India about allowing a Chinese ship to dock amid Indian fears about military surveillance.
The U.S. is Popular in Southeast Asia, But Chinese Influence Isn’t Going Away: Study
While the United States is generally more liked among populations in Indonesia, the Philippines and Vietnam, they see China as the pivotal economic power in the region. This was one finding of a newly compiled opinion survey tracking popular and elite views published ...
Fishermen conduct abalone management and protection operations at sea in the waters of Xiaocheng Town, Lianjiang County, Fuzhou City, Fujian Province, China, on March 14, 2026. (Photo by Costfoto/NurPhoto) (Photo by CFOTO / NurPhoto / NurPhoto via AFP)
"China's financial commitments are simply more tangible and easier to grasp than those of Europe," one delegate from an island state remarked to me on a bright spring day in late March, as we both gazed out at the East River from the United Nations Headquarters. Behind us, in airless ...
Report: Increased Chinese Patrols in the South China Sea Have Done Little to Discourage Rivals’ Oil Exploration
Chinese maritime authorities increased their patrols in the South China Sea by 15% in 2024 compared to the previous year, according to new data from the Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative (AMTI) at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C., particularly in waters contested by the ...
New Dataset Reveals the Extent Beijing is Determined to Enforce South China Sea Territorial Claims
The Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C. released an update to its South China Sea interactive dataset that provides a visual overview of the key factors fueling the current crisis. The AMTI tool ...
Tracking the Movements of China’s Maritime Militia in the South China Sea
China sharply increased the deployment of its informal, ostensibly civilian fleet of fishing vessels known as its "maritime militia" that helps assert territorial claims in the South China Sea, according to new data from the Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative (AMTI) at the Center for Strategic and International ...
China’s Maritime Research Has Military Role: Report
The government of Sri Lanka announced in early January that it is imposing a one-year ban on Chinese research vessels docking at its ports. Last year, Colombo got into a spat with India about allowing a Chinese ship to dock amid Indian fears about military surveillance.
The U.S. is Popular in Southeast Asia, But Chinese Influence Isn’t Going Away: Study
While the United States is generally more liked among populations in Indonesia, the Philippines and Vietnam, they see China as the pivotal economic power in the region. This was one finding of a newly compiled opinion survey tracking popular and elite views published ...
China and India’s Bumpy Road to An “Asian Century”
China and India must find ways of tolerating each other’s military rise to ensure the dawn of an “Asian Century.” So argued Zhou Bo, a former official in China’s Ministry of Defense and currently a researcher at the Center for Strategic ...
White House Sticks With Group Diplomacy Rather Than One-on-Ones
At no point in the two-day schedule of the U.S.-ASEAN summit is there any time allocated for President Joe Biden to meet one-on-one with any of the visiting Southeast Asian leaders. Instead, the eight leaders will meet collectively with the President and other senior-level stakeholders.