Pressure Points by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute analyzes the Chinese military's use of air and maritime coercion to enforce Beijing's excessive territorial claims and advance China's security and defense interests in the Indo-Pacific.

The Submarine Cable Map is a free and regularly updated resource from TeleGeography.

Taiwan Security Monitor (TSM) is a student-driven research initiative dedicated to informing and improving the public discourse on cross-Strait security issues. Focused on the intersection of open-source research, geospatial data, and policy analysis, TSM provides timely and valuable insights into the evolving cross-Strait security landscape. TSM’s lines of effort includes tracking major military movements, maintaining a comprehensive repository of resources related to cross-Strait security, analyzing visual imagery, and compiling historical data on foreign military sales to Taiwan. By leveraging open-source intelligence (OSINT) tools and techniques, TSM’s team of student researchers monitor key developments and present clear, data-driven insights for policymakers, journalists, researchers, and the public. TSM is directed by Dr. Michael Hunzeker, an associate professor at George Mason University’s Schar School of Government and Policy.

Discussion on the motives and methods that guide China’s Non-War Military Operations (NWMOs) against a range of adversaries, and how targeted countries can better detect and deter Chinese salami slicing and incremental territorial expansionism. Hosted by Dr. Sreeram Chaulia and featuring expert analysis by Ray Powell, Founder and Director of SeaLight, a research project of Stanford University, USA.

RAND’s senior behavioral scientist Todd Helmus joins Jim Carouso and Ray Powell to explain how #China exploits the maritime “gray zone” to pursue its aggressive and expansionist policies without triggering open conflict.

December 2024 update of AMTI's list of maritime militia ships in the South China Sea.

The authors identify approaches for the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command and other elements of the U.S. military to counter and deter Chinese maritime gray zone operations.

Ray Powell and Jim Carouso discuss the recent tense and sometimes violent maritime confrontations between China and the Philippines with Southeast Asia expert Greg Poling, author of "On Dangerous Ground: America's Century in the South China Sea". They consider what these developments mean for America's long-standing alliance commitment to the Philippines, which Greg asserts is finally being treated like a "real ally" on equivalent footing with more developed countries like Japan.

The U.S. could be drawn into a conflict between China and the Philippines that's been roiling the South China Sea.

In the South China Sea, the Chinese leadership is intent on controlling all the rocks, reefs, and resources in the waters encompassed by what has become known as the ‘nine-dash’ or ‘U-shaped’ line. This line, which first appeared on an official map published by the Republic of China (ROC) in 1948, has no legal or historical basis. It is the product of misunderstandings and mistranslations by officials and private individuals in China during the 1930s. Unfortunately, this line is the basis for ongoing confrontations and escalating geopolitical tension between the People’s Republic of China (PRC), its Southeast Asian neighbours and other countries.

Japan on Thursday unveiled a plan to evacuate about 120,000 people from southern islets near Taiwan, regarded by China as its territory, in case of an emergency.

Tensions have escalated in the disputed Yellow Sea, a region where its exclusive economic zone (EEZ) overlaps with China’s after South Korea deployed a large floating platform.

United States Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is expected to affirm his nation’s security commitment to the Philippines and other US allies as he arrives today for his first official visit to the country to meet with his counterpart Gilbert Teodoro Jr.

Beijing’s armed forces have bulked up and practiced isolating the island.

Chinese Coast Guard vessels still operating in Japanese territorial waters.

Chinese social media has been awash with a new map and video claiming for China not just features within the 10-dash line, but the Philippine island of Palawan, which has sat outside that line. In the video, Palawan has been renamed “Zheng He Island” after the famous Chinese explorer of the 1300s. And on March 13, Manila said three Filipinos have been detained in China’s Hainan Province on allegations of espionage.

The Philippines and its allies are trying to expand the Squad grouping of nations to include India and South Korea to counter China in the Indo-Pacific region, the Philippines' Armed Forces chief General Romeo S. Brawner said on Wednesday. Read more: https://www.gmanetwork.com/news/topstories/nation/939895/philippines-eyes-expansion-of-squad-group-to-india-south-korea/story/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR0KHryGeC4kJkipLLW-Hs0KWIq3Mv0YaivXcsLvz-cOvI6xY4saTzzlG1M_aem_Ifw5syMB-4cv6u6lZ1Jv7Q More stories: https://www.gmanetwork.com/news/ Follow us: https://www.facebook.com/gmanews/

The involvement of an extra-regional great power in a small power’s territorial disputes with China may prove counterproductive.

On March 14, 1988, a short but brutal naval skirmish between China and Vietnam at Johnson South Reef reshaped the region’s power dynamics.

G7 accused China of seeking to ‘unilaterally alter status quo in such a way as to risk undermining the stability of regions’