Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Mon, 07/21/2014 - 05:46
Paper No. 5746 Dated 21-Jul-2014
By Dr Subhash Kapila
(Observations made at Round Table Conference at Danang, Vietnam May 20 2014 by Dr Subhash Kapila following the International Workshop on May 19 2014.)
South China Sea has emerged as an explosive regional and global flashpoint endangering the security and stability of the wider Indo Pacific region. This arises mainly from China’s propensity to use force to settle territorial disputes.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Thu, 07/17/2014 - 09:37
Paper No. 5744 Dated 17-Jul-2014
By Dr Subhash Kapila
Contemporaneous review of the Asian security landscape would in mid-2014 suggest with clarity that China has emerged as a major threat to Asian security and stability. The China threat palpably raises concerns all over the Indo Pacific.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Fri, 06/27/2014 - 11:07
Paper No. 5733 Dated 27-Jun-2014
(Dr Subhash Kapila was invited to participate in an International Workshop at Danang VIETNAM from June 19-22 2014 on South China Sea issues. The theme selected by him for his Presentation is as reflected in the Title and the contents of his Presentation are reproduced below)
By Dr Subhash Kapila
Introductory Observations
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Wed, 04/16/2014 - 09:21
Paper No. 5686 Dated 16-Apr-2014
By Dr Subhash Kapila
Indonesia finally shed its strategic ambiguity in March 2014 on the China-generated South China Sea conflicts by Indonesian officials asserting that China’s Nine Dash Line is in conflict with Indonesia’s maritime sovereignty around the Natuna Inlands in response to increased Chinese military activities in the Southern Segment of the South China Sea.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Thu, 02/27/2014 - 07:33
Paper No. 5655 Dated 27-Feb-2014
By Bhaskar Roy
China has been cautiously, and with uncharacteristic restraint, watching the new flourish in India-Japan relations.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Thu, 02/13/2014 - 09:17
Paper No. 5647 Dated 13-Feb-2014
By Dr. Subhash Kapila
The United States for the first time in response to China’s growing intransigence and brinkmanship in the Western Pacific on its maritime disputes in the South China Sea and the East China Sea has come out with an explicit assertion disputing China’s claims of sovereignty over virtually the entire South China Sea through its legally untenable Nine Dash Line.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Mon, 01/06/2014 - 10:43
Paper No. 5630 Dated 06-Jan-2014
By Dr. Subhash Kapila
Introductory Observations
South China Sea disputes involve five ASEAN nations whose sovereignty in different portions of this strategic sea region stand contested by China adopting a mixed strategy of political coercion, military brinkmanship and use of force to occupy its claimed islands and landforms.
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