Geopoliticus December 21, 2016 Standing Firm, Mostly: Militarization of the South China Sea Last week, a Chinese naval vessel which had been shadowing the USNS Bowditch, a U.S. Navy oceanographic ship,... Read more »
Geopoliticus December 1, 2016 Revival of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) and the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) are both free-trade agreements in Asia that... Read more »
Geopoliticus September 15, 2016 GI Go Home, Again: The Philippines-U.S. Alliance Weakens On Tuesday, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte abruptly demanded that American military advisors on the southern Philippine island of Mindanao... Read more »
Geopoliticus July 12, 2016 Shame Power: The Philippine Case against China at the Permanent Court of Arbitration The Philippines may not have much conventional power it can bring to bear in its territorial dispute with China... Read more »
Geopoliticus June 24, 2016 China’s Encirclement Concerns For almost two decades, Chinese strategists have worried about what they regard as the geopolitical encirclement of China. At... Read more »
Geopoliticus April 30, 2016 China’s ADIZ over the South China Sea: Whole, Partial, or None Ever since China declared an air defense identification zone (ADIZ) over the East China Sea in late 2013, many... Read more »
Geopoliticus April 14, 2016 China’s New Missiles and U.S. Alliances in the Asia-Pacific: The Impact of Weakening Extended Deterrence Two weeks ago, Chinese President Xi Jinping attended a nuclear security cooperation summit in Washington. At the same time,... Read more »
Geopoliticus April 1, 2016 Chinese Accusations in the East and South China Seas “Japan always criticizes others, so how can it explain its own actions?” charged the Chinese Ministry of Defense’s spokesman... Read more »
Geopoliticus March 3, 2016 South China Sea Escalation: Relations between China and the United States Every week that passes seems to bring a new development in the South China Sea. Over the last few... Read more »
Geopoliticus October 9, 2015 U.S. Foreign Policy Aspirations and the Trans-Pacific Partnership: Economic Integration and Political Alignment? At times, it seemed as though the negotiations over the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) would go on interminably. Begun in... Read more »