Even though India has increasingly stood with the Philippines and the United States in the South China Sea disputes, it has largely avoided provoking China.... View More

If there are new military deployments in the northern Philippines in the near future, whether defensive or offensive, tensions would be escalated in the Taiwan Strait and the Philippines would become a target in any conflict.... View More

For Vietnam, the key to its dream of becoming a strong nation lies in having stable ties and close economic cooperation with the major powers. Teaming up with the US to counter China will put it in the dangerous situation of taking sides in the rivalry between the two and ultimately shatter its dream.... View More

warm China-Malaysia relations, thriving economic cooperation in particular, could be witnessed during the Anwar era, but the anti-Chinese sentiment led by the Malay nationalists and U.S. pressure are the main challenges.... View More

It is understandable for the United States and the Philippines to develop military relations, as they are traditional security allies. Nonetheless, the Philippines should be aware of China’s bottom line.... View More

The strategic significance of Indonesia in China’s neighbor diplomacy has sharply increased.... View More

After Joe Biden took office, US’s “Indo-Pacific Strategy” (IPS)-which was officially proposed by former President Trump in November 2017-showed an new trend. This recent trajectory includes expanding overseas military bases to deter China's rise at sea, competing against its BRI infrastructure construction and decoupling China’s supply chain in the Indo-Pacific region.... View More

Countries like the Philippines face difficulties in implementing a balancing act between great power rivals.... View More

The ongoing China-US rivalry on pandemic raises the alarm for China. The country still has a long way to compete for international discourse on the pandemic.... View More

There are some difficulties for China to make the vision of a cross-border railway in Central and South Asia a reality. It’s worth bearing in mind that difficulties do not necessarily derail such projects. Despite unstable domestic politics and the great technical difficulties of building railways in the Himalayas, in December China initiated a feasibility study for the China-Nepal cross-border railway. Therefore, a long railway across China, Central Asia, and South Asia may still be feasible in the future, and it could substantially change both geopolitics and geoeconomics in the region.... View More