Human Fingerprint Identified On Indo-Pacific Warm Pool Growth
The Indo-Pacific warm pool (IPWP), Earth’s largest region of warm sea surface temperatures (SSTs), has the highest rainfall and is fundamental to global atmospheric circulation and the hydrological...
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If Atlantic Ocean Is New Black Sea, What’s The Black Sea? Aegis Ashore And...
By John R. Haines* (FPRI) — “The success of any major operation or campaign depends on the free movement of one’s forces in the theater. Without the ability to conduct large-scale movements on land, at...
View Article‘The Blob’ Overshadows El Niño
El Niño exerted powerful effects around the globe in the last year, eroding California beaches; driving drought in northern South America, Africa and Asia; and bringing record rain to the U.S. Pacific...
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Scarborough Shoal: Philippine-Chinese Joint Development Area? – Analysis
In the South China Sea, should the Philippines offer China a carrot of joint offshore joint development projects, or a stick of expanded Philippine-US multilateral sea patrols? In coming days, a UN...
View ArticleSouth China Sea Hogs International Limelight – Analysis
The South China Sea has emerged as the most significant hotspot and a potential flashpoint in the Asian region as a number of countries are jostling over a share of pie of the huge deposit of resources...
View ArticleShame Power: The Philippine Case Against China At Permanent Court Of...
By Felix K. Chang (FPRI) — The Philippines may not have much conventional power it can bring to bear in its territorial dispute with China in the South China Sea. But today it demonstrated that it does...
View ArticleTribunal Rejects China’s Claims In South China Sea – OpEd
An international tribunal, Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA), has ruled against Chinese claims to rights in the South China Sea, backing a case brought by the Philippines, declaring that there was...
View ArticleTensions In The Yellow Sea: Crabs And The Inter-Korea Border Dispute – Analysis
There has been intensified competition between fishermen from China, South Korea and North Korea to catch blue crabs around the disputed Northern Limit Line (NLL) in the Yellow Sea. As long as the...
View ArticleThe South China Sea Arbitration Decision: China Fought The Law, And The Law...
By Jacques deLisle* (FPRI) — When the Permanent Court of Arbitration in the Hague issued its unanimous decision on July 12 in the case that the Philippines had filed against the People’s Republic of...
View ArticleChina, South China Sea, The PCA Ruling And ASEAN: A Call For Unity – Analysis
The much-awaited ruling of the Permanent Court of Arbitration on the maritime dispute in the South China Sea between the Philippines and China was finally delivered. Taken together, it was nothing...
View ArticleSouth China Sea Verdict: Now Challenge Is To Persuade Beijing To Back Down –...
By Manoj Joshi* The Permanent Court of Arbitration’s arbitral tribunal in its verdict on the South China Sea issue has decisively held against China’s expansive maritime claims in those waters. China...
View ArticleLaw Challenges China Dream For Control Of South China Sea – Analysis
With its hard line, China has painted itself into a corner while increasing the chance of conflict with its neighbors. By Nayan Chanda* An international court’s stinging verdict, denying China’s claim...
View ArticleProspects And Challenges For China After South China Sea Arbitration – Analysis
China has firmly rejected and denounced the July 2016 award by the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) at The Hague on the arbitration initiated by the Philippines on its dispute with China over the...
View ArticleSouth China Sea Arbitration: Evolving Geopolitical Battle Lines Between China...
By Prof. B.R. Deepak* Well over three years since the Philippines initiated arbitration proceedings as regards its maritime jurisdiction in the South China Sea (SCS), The Hague based Permanent Court of...
View ArticleRising China Confronts Maritime Southeast Asia – Analysis
China’s rejection of the Permanent Court of Arbitration ruling on its expansive claim to the South China Sea has set itself up for confrontation with maritime states in Southeast Asia. It will also...
View ArticleWhat Now For China? – Analysis
China has chosen not to take part in the arbitral tribunal brought against it by the Philippines. Hence, now that the tribunal has issued its ruling, China should stay away from commenting on the case...
View ArticleSouth China Sea: Is Taiwan On The Right Path? – Analysis
By Rajeswari Pillai Rajagopalan On July 12, 2016, the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) came out with its ruling on South China Sea. The verdict was that China’s nine-dash line and its claims based...
View ArticleOceanographers Grow Genome Of Ocean Microbe Important To Climate Change
Sea turtles and whales may be the charismatic critters of the sea, but the true kingpins of the ocean make up 98 percent of the ocean’s biomass — and yet individually are too small to see with the...
View ArticleSouth China Sea: China’s Double Speak And Verdict At The Hague – Analysis
By Vijay Shankar* When Premier Xi rubbished the 12 July 2016 verdict of the International Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague on China’s claims over most of the South China Sea, what exactly...
View ArticlePursuit Of Post-Award Dialogue In West Philippine Sea – Analysis
The outgoing Aquino Administration will be remembered in Philippine history as the Presidency that stood up against efforts by another country to take away part of its territory and prevent it from...
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