RULES AND ORDER
2020-04-30 | BY Chen Xiangmiao
Vietnam’s strategy of playing the victim deliberately amplifies China’s power advantage, making China a “bully” at sea so that it can gain sympathy and support from the international community when it conducts unilateral activities in Spratly Islands such as island/reef fortification and oil/gas exploitation.
2020-04-08 | BY SCSPI
As the new fishing season approached and the weather turned to be better, the activities of Vietnamese fishing vessels skyrocketed all over the South China Sea in March.
2020-03-23 | BY SCSPI
Recently, the SCSPI has released several reports on Vietnamese fishing vessels, indicating that hundreds of them are intruding into the waters around Hainan Island, about which some experts especially Vietnamese colleagues have different opinions. We hereby make such following formal responses.
2020-03-11 | BY Jiang Yanchuan
On March 5, AMTI claims that the almost constant presence of China’s militia fishing vessels around Thitu Island is stoking up the “Thitu Island Crisis” again, whose assertion turns out to be a far cry from the real statistics.
2020-03-04 | BY SCSPI
In February 2020, a total of 311 Vietnamese vessels intruded into internal waters, territorial seas, and exclusive economic zones (EEZs) of Guangxi, Hainan, and Guangdong provinces and conducted IUU fishing and close-range reconnaissance.
2020-02-03 | BY SCSPI
From January 19 to 31 of 2020, a total of 34 Vietnamese fishing vessels intruded into China’s internal waters, territorial seas and EEZs near the Hainan Island, and most of which were found within 12 nm of the Island. Generally, such activities of the Vietnamese fishing vessels can bring risks in two aspects.
2020-01-20 | BY Lei Xiaolu
“Freedom of navigation and overflight” cannot justify complicated military operations of US and other extra-regional powers in the South China sea, apart from which they need to seek other legal basis to defend their actions.
2019-11-11 | BY Hu Bo
The power competition between China and the US, as well as the disputes on maritime delimitation and resource exploitation, is intensifying. Here are suggestions to related parties.
2019-10-15 | BY Chen Yong
The term “gray zone,” however, is not a new concept. The US itself has always been a master of gray zone competition, conducting all sorts of maritime gray zone operations against China as well, which include propaganda campaigns, Freedom of Navigation Operations (FONOPs), and forward military deterrence.
2019-09-09 | BY Lei Xiaolu
Respecting the wills and efforts of regional states, maintaining the peace and stable development of the South China Sea, and deepening cooperation in a wider area in the South China Sea show where the future goes. Countries outside the region should see the determination and ability of their counterparts in the South China Sea and foster a favorable atmosphere for regional countries to manage maritime dispute settlements and promote pragmatic cooperation.