COLUMN | Heading for a showdown in the South China Sea? [Naval Gazing]
Tensions around the Spratly and Paracel Islands in the South China Sea (SCS) have been on a rising curve since China’s de facto annexation of Mischief...
Tensions around the Spratly and Paracel Islands in the South China Sea (SCS) have been on a rising curve since China’s de facto annexation of Mischief...
The Philippine Coast Guard has reported an incident wherein one of its vessels was illuminated by a military-grade laser light from a Chinese ship in...
Last month, the Indonesian government approved natural gas exploration in the Tuna gas bloc, part of the largest untapped natural gas deposit in the...
Taking advantage of the West’s focus on the war in Ukraine, China is rapidly bolstering its already dominant position in the South China Sea. Recent...
At the end of last year, Japan’s National Institute for Defense Studies released the 2023 edition of its annual China security report, which focuses...
The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) has provided the details of a recent close distance manoeuvring incident involving a vessel of the China Coast Guard...
For many years, paramilitary patrol ships of the China Coast Guard (CCG) and its predecessor, China Maritime Surveillance, usually lightly-armed, but...
In late 2021 Beijing deployed a pair of new Type 056A corvettes bearing the hull numbers 666 and 667 to Hong Kong to replace the existing early model...
For many years the Philippine Navy (PN) could provide only threadbare security for the nation’s 5,700 million square kilometres sea area and 7,600 islands....
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