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2025-07-09 | BY Yu Minna
Over the past 70 years, China’s role and contributions in safeguarding maritime safety in the South China Sea have been widely recognized. Especially in the past decade, China has made steady and commensurate contributions through initiatives such as providing intelligent navigation services, strengthening maritime disaster prevention and mitigation, developing an integrated sea-air search and rescue system, and deepening international cooperation against transnational maritime crimes.
2025-06-30 | BY SCSPI
The Spratly Islands sits in the southern part of the South China Sea, stretching from Marie Louise Bank in the north to James Shoal in the south, bordered by Vanguard Bank to the west and Seahorse Shoal to the east. It is China’s southernmost archipelago, comprising over 200 islands, reefs, shoals and sandbars. 6 parties—China, Vietnam, the Philippines, Malaysia, Brunei and Chinese Taiwan—have made claims to all or part of the islands, with Vietnam occupying 29 features in total. Since the 1970s, Vietnam has continuously carried out reclamation activities on relevant features. A new wave of expansion projects has been witnessed after October 2021.
2025-06-21 | BY Bao Yinan
On May 30, 2025, 33 countries, including China, signed the Convention on the Establishment of the International Organization for Mediation (hereinafter referred to as the “Convention”) in Hong Kong, China. This marks the realization of the International Organization for Mediation (IOMed), which had been in preparation for over two years. The IOMed is the first international organization dedicated exclusively to resolving international disputes through mediation. As the Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi stated, the establishment of the IOMed “will fill an institutional gap in international mediation and serve as an important public good in the field of the rule of law for better global governance.”
2025-05-22 | BY Wang Tengfei
According to incomplete statistics from the Automatic Identification System (AIS) of ships, the number of Vietnamese fishing vessels’ activities in the South China Sea in 2023 and 2024 has continued to climb compared to previous years, especially in 2024, when the average monthly number exceeded more than 14,700 throughout the year and reached as many as 18,193 in July 2024, the highest number in years.
2025-05-14 | BY SCSPI
On May 6, 2025, the South China Sea Strategic Probing Initiative (SCSPI) and the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), conducted the 5th SCSPI-RSIS South China Sea Roundtable in Singapore.