South China Sea
Poker, chess and Go: How the US should respond in the South China Sea
The Permanent Court of Arbitration's decision places more pressure on the US than China, as Washington must now act to support this emphatic judgement. Failure to do so will…
Commentary
Ruling says no state is an island
Originally published in The Australian Financial Review.Euan Graham
South China Sea ruling sweeps away diplomatic ambiguities
Editor's note: We mistakenly published an earlier version of this article. This is the corrected text.
Tuesday’s ruling by the International Tribunal on the Law of the Sea has…
An inevitable precedent: Where states stand on the South China Sea ruling
By Nicholas Welsh, an intern in the Lowy Institute's International Security Program.
As the dust begins to settle after the Permanent Court of Arbitration's landmark ruling…
South China Sea ruling: India takes a stand
The South China Sea dispute verdict has been delivered in favour of the Philippines, and the infamous 'nine dash line' now has no basis in international law.
Without taking sides…
South China Sea: A course-correction needed
Tuesday's South China Sea adjudication demonstrates that the UNCLOS framework is totally unsuited to sorting out the complex conflicting claims in the South China Sea in a way…
How to respond to China's 'salami tactics' in South China Sea
With China set to reject the upcoming ruling on the South China Sea by the UN's Permanent Court of Arbitration, what’s the next step to containing the simmering dispute?
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Both Coalition and Labor weak on South China Sea freedom of navigation
Beyond aid spending and asylum seekers, foreign policy rarely rates a mention in Australian election campaigns. But with the Coalition and Labor squaring off on the issue of…
This week in Jakarta: Brexit, Ramadan and the South China Sea
The time of year is approaching when Indonesia's major cities are suddenly emptied of millions of their inhabitants, before being just as suddenly filled with even more people…
South China Sea: Two things you should read
First, this speech by Singapore’s Ambassador-at-Large Bilahari Kausikan, delivered in Tokyo last week (thanks Merriden):
The South China Sea (SCS) has emerged as something of a…