Admiral Dennis Blair calls for peaceful solutions to maritime disputes
December 22, 2015Categories: Sasakawa USA Blog
Delivering the keynote remarks at the Heritage Foundation’s recent security partner dialogue on the Indo-Pacific, Admiral Dennis Blair called for peaceful solutions to ongoing territorial disputes that have caused tensions between China and other nations in the area.
Tags: admiral dennis blair, Asia Pacific, China, east Asia, east china sea, indo-pacific, maritime disputes, maritime security, security, South China Sea, territorial disputes
New Chinese islands don’t settle sea disputes
June 18, 2015Author: The Australian
Categories: Daily Japan News
Japan warned China yesterday that its extensive land reclamation in the disputed South China Sea does not make ownership “a done deal”, after Beijing announced it had almost finished its controversial island-building.
Tags: building, China, island building, PRC, territorial disputes, territory
Perspectives: Breaking the ice in Northeast Asia, by Kent C. Calder
December 11, 2014Author: Mainichi Shimbun
Categories: Views
While top world leaders spent their time surrounding the G-20 and APEC meetings travelling around the region and making ties with ASEAN and other leaders, Japan’s struggle remains in Northeast Asia.
Tags: APEC, ASEAN, China, diplomacy, foreign policy, G-20, human rights, Japan, Kent Calder, Kono Statement, Korea, Northeast Asia, region, regional disputes, Russia, territorial disputes, trilateral diplomacy, United States
Op-Ed: Détente for China and Japan
December 10, 2014Author: New York Times
Categories: Views
Akio Takahara, professor at the University of Tokyo and visiting scholar at Peking University, examines the widely reported 25 minute meeting between Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Chinese President Xi Jinping where the two leaders only brushed upon diplomatic tensions such as territorial disputes.
Tags: APEC, China, diplomacy, diplomatic, Japan, Shinzo Abe, territorial disputes, Xi Jinping