Tag Archive for: "South China Sea"
China: economy-world versus security-world

If China’s future course is the vital question, the answers in economy-world are different to those in security-world. The versions of China offered in the two worlds clash in nature, form and quality. In security-world, …

The Natuna Islands matter

In case anyone thinks that Indonesia’s somewhat diffident assertion of its fishing rights in the waters around the Natuna Islands in the South China Sea is just the usual squabble between fishermen from neighbouring countries, …

ASPI suggests

  The world is once again on high terror alert mode after a series of tragic developments over the last week. As Orlando, Florida, reels after 49 people were shot down in a nightclub last …

Indonesia’s 2015 Defence White Paper

Indonesia’s latest Defence White Paper was issued in November last year and was publically released on 31 May. It supersedes the 2008 White Paper. Although a replacement paper was produced in the dying days of …