Tag: Disputed Waters

  • 'Global Times' calls South China Sea a 'core interest'

    The nationalist-leaning state-controlled newspaper Global Times on its English-language website Sunday made what might be a significant statement in the ongoing Chinese dispute with Vietnam and the Philippines, among others, in the South China Sea. In an unsigned opinion piece, the paper states: As to China, it is not interested in being involved in frequent…

  • Daily Update, June 27, 2012 – more on South China Sea

    Today’s links continue following the micro-developments in the South China Sea, as Vietnam and the Philippines both move to manipulate matters in each country’s ongoing island and territorial water dispute with China. The first four links fit into the Vietnam–China framework. The last two are on Philippines–China. Vietnam Warns China to Halt Oil Bids in…

  • Daily Update, June 26, 2012

    How to Defuse South China Sea Conflicts –Taylor Fravel in WSJ To neutralize such standoffs, the focus should first be on reducing proximate causes. For example, even though it would not address the underlying dispute, a joint or multilateral fishing agreement could remove one major source of friction in the South China Sea. … Finally,…

  • Chinese Official: Sino-Japanese Relations 'Back on Track'

    Huang Xinyuan says Sino-Japanese relations have recovered. That’s after Prime Minister Abe Shinzo‘s second meeting with President Hu Jintao this weekend at the APEC summit in Hanoi, and after five years of stilted relations during Koizumi Junichiro’s leadership in Japan. “Since Prime Minister Abe’s visit to China,” Huang Xingyuan, Councilor with China’s Foreign Ministry, said…

  • Trilateral + Trilateral = Quadrilateral?

    Just as I set out to open this blog as an ongoing discussion of the international relationship between China, Japan, and the United States, I am reminded by current news that there is another important trilateral relationship: China-Japan-Russia. (Russian border guards shot a Japanese fisherman in waters surrounding disputed islands called the Kurils in Russia…