By Radhakrishna Rao Media reports reveal that there are growing concerns in the United States over rapidly expanding Chinese space capabilities that could help the communist giant derive diplomatic and defense-related advantages, which in turn could hurt the long-term national security and geostrategic interests of the US. A well-documented national security report on revising US […]
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Putin returns to the Wild East
17/05/2012By Yong Kwon Vladimir Putin was ceremoniously reinstated as Russia’s head of state last week. The country is relatively more stable and prosperous than when he first assumed power in 2000. Nonetheless, Putin’s six-year term will still be wrought with serious challenges to the welfare of the nation and tenuous economic growth. In his short […]
India and Japan’s involvement in the South China Sea disputes
11/05/2012By Andy Yee, Hong Kong Geopolitical tensions continue to simmer in the South China Sea after the Obama administration’s declaration last year of a US ‘return to Asia’ stirred up regional dynamics. Now, non-claimant states India and Japan are entering into the fray.There are various reasons for this activity. First, the South China Sea is […]
Territorial disputes in East Asia: Proxies for China-US strategic competition?
11/05/2012By Aileen S.P. Baviera, University of the Philippines Recent tiffs between China and Japan, China and Vietnam and China and the US concerning the status of disputed islands and waters in the South and the East China seas possess a significance quite distinct from disagreements of the past. More specifically, previous contests amongst coastal states […]
South China Sea disputes: ASEAN and China
11/05/2012By Carlyle A. Thayer, UNSW@ADFA The South China Sea has re-emerged as a front-burner security issue this year as a result of aggressive Chinese assertiveness. There have been three major reported incidents involving Chinese civilian ships accosting Vietnamese and Filipino oil exploration vessels operating in their Exclusive Economic Zones. The Philippines is currently drawing up […]
Global warming: winners and losers in the Arctic’s ‘new normal’
11/05/2012The Arctic Report Card study suggests that changes at the top of the world have led to unusual weather patterns, a greener Greenland, and lots of plankton. At least the whales are pleased. By Pete Spotts, Staff writer / December 1, 2011 Global warming has brought a new normal to the Arctic, with warmer air and ocean temperatures, […]
Russia pulling ahead in the Arctic
11/05/2012By Michael Byers NOVOSIBIRSK, RUSSIA—“Canada has a good working relationship with Russia with respect to the Arctic. There is no likelihood of Arctic states going to war.” The Russian foreign ministry’s representative in Siberia smiles as he quotes the Canadian Prime Minister, as reported in a U.S. diplomatic cable released by WikiLeaks. Although Stephen Harper […]
China’s New Strategic Target: Arctic Minerals
11/05/2012By Andrew Erickson and Gabe Collins As policymakers in Washington focus on China’s expanding presence in Africa and growing assertiveness in the South China Sea and Indian Ocean region, Danish diplomatic assistance is opening the gate for China to establish a strategic foothold in the Arctic. Denmark has made a strategic decision to prioritize its […]
India’s stake in Arctic cold war
11/05/2012By SHYAM SARAN Will it be the next geopolitical battleground or remain the common heritage of humankind? A retired Rear Admiral of the Chinese PLA Navy, Yin Zhuo, caused a major stir in March 2010, when in a speech to the Chinese Peoples’ Political Consultative Conference, he declared: “The Arctic belongs to all the people […]
Relocating the Reset: U.S.-Russian Partnership in the Arctic
11/05/2012By Caitlyn Antrim In January, when a U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker escorted a Russian tanker carrying essential fuel to Nome, Alaska, it served as a reminder that the U.S. and Russia have many reasons to continue pursuing a thaw in relations. Unfortunately, beyond the New START agreement and a few other deals, the U.S.-Russia reset, […]