Michael Ard / November 3, 2012 10:30 pm
from Wikimedia Commons On the evening of Thursday, November 1, 2012, Columbia Law School hosted a panel discussion called “International Law and the South China Sea.” Panelists included Zhou Jian, UN ambassador for the People’s Republic of China and an advisor on maritime law for the PRC; Vietnam’s UN ambassador Le Hoai Trung; Henry Bensurto of the Philippines’ Department of Foreign affairs; Sir Daniel Bethlehem, visiting law professor at Colum...
Akshay Kini / December 19, 2011 11:43 pm
...nging to China. China hopes to expand its sphere of influence and eventually make a sovereign claim to the entirety of the South China Sea and the islands belonging to it, even though most of the sea is shared by Vietnam, the Philippines, Taiwan, Malaysia, and Brunei. This is old news. Recently, however, China has become increasingly assertive in the region. Since February, China has overtly infiltrated Philippines-claimed territory in the South...
Michael Ard / September 26, 2011 6:07 pm
...idden, the Chinese believe that the United States will retreat from Chinese advances with its tail between its legs. China’s increasing bellicosity in the face of overlapping territorial claims in the South China Sea with the Philippines, Taiwan, Vietnam, Brunei, and Malaysia has launched a wave of nervous hand-wringing in both Chinese and international media. Vietnam and the Philippines, among others including Japan, India, and most ASEAN countr...
Nicolas Sambor / April 11, 2013 4:05 pm
...a small elite), and capital flight (the disappearance of those elites’ money from their home countries). In contrast to the flagrant corruption of the regimes of decades past – Suharto in Indonesia, or Ferdinand Marcos in the Philippines – today’s Southeast Asian governments are on the whole a more efficient and attractive economic entity, as the increased prominence and ambition of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in recent tim...
Helene Barthelemy / March 17, 2012 10:52 am
...s prepared with a contact list, and can be a useful partner in building alliances with his country of origin. The Sawyer Miller Group was paid by the Philippine government to “monitor developments in the US of interest to the Philippines,” as denounced in “The Torturer’s Lobby,” a study conducted by the Center for Public Integrity. The firm contracted a US lobbyist to interact with Congress on behalf of the Philippines. Similarly, the Colombian g...
Narayan Subramanian / May 4, 2013 6:40 pm
...se nuclear tests amounted to 1.6 Hiroshimas per day over that period – a fact little known to the world community. The Marshall Islands is part of the Micronesian island chain in the Pacific Ocean extending from Hawaii to the Philippines, and consists of 34 volcanic islands that are home to a population of around 70,000 people. The country, strategically located just south of Japan, played an important role in World War II, and the United States...
Michael Ard / April 9, 2012 12:30 pm
...his great leap in Asian interaction with the wider world will not stop with China. India’s population will be larger than China’s by the year 2025 and will be younger and growing to boot. Indonesia, Pakistan, Vietnam, and the Philippines (among others) all promise economic and population growth, which means that educated workers will leave their countries in unprecedented numbers. Additionally, as we have seen with China, I expect that these Asia...
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