Passive resistance to Beijing’s actions in the South China Sea is not working. If the United States wants to win in the region, it needs a grey-zone strategy of its own. Beijing has spent a decade …
With China posing a threat to Indonesia’s interests in the South China Sea, Indonesia needs a clear maritime cooperation strategy. It should itself set the cooperation agenda with China, insist that joint activity complies with …
Taiwan’s inconsistency in asserting its sovereignty is giving Beijing a narrative opening. Taiwan needs a coherent doctrine for when and how to contest border disputes, even if it makes different arguments to different countries. On …
Maritime surveillance has become Southeast Asia’s critical capability gap. Artificial intelligence combined with orbital surveillance technologies – which we call space AI – offers one way to close it. As China asserts ownership and control …
News about an Indonesian frigate exercising with a Chinese warship 130 to 150 km east of Taiwan was always going to raise eyebrows. The exercise last week was the first time China had conducted such …




