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MAR 16, 2025
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Gray Zone Tactics Playbook: Sonic Weapons
China's increasing use of sonic weapons as a gray zone tactic against its rivals includes sirens, sonar and long-range acoustic devices.
MAR 11, 2025
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Beijing's Quiet Aggression at Sea
China's campaign of quiet aggression has already achieved many of its expansionist maritime objectives. Its neighbors and the world have started to notice, but checking Beijing's ambitions will take more than our attention.
MAR 6, 2025
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The Silent Struggle: Countering China’s Gray Zone Operations in the South China Sea
Two recent RAND reports serve as a wake-up call: integrating resilience, capacity, and coordinated efforts isn’t just beneficial for combatting China's gray-zone warfare, it’s absolutely imperative for long-term regional stability.
DEC 29, 2024
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China’s Other Expansion Victimizes Nepal and Bhutan
As the world watches China’s increasingly aggressive moves at sea, its quiet expansion across land borders in the Himalayas serves as a reminder that its ambitions extend far beyond the South China Sea or Taiwan. China is methodically expanding its reach, targeting small, vulnerable neighbors like Nepal and Bhutan.
NOV 24, 2024
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China's Imperialist, Maritime Occupation of the West Philippine Sea
It is no longer sufficient to describe China's aggressions in the West Philippine Sea as if they are a series of individual incursions. We've passed that point. This is now a maritime occupation by a hostile, imperial power. The Philippines and its friends need to adjust their conceptual frameworks, their strategies and their tactics accordingly.
OCT 22, 2024
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Indonesia Expels China Coast Guard Ship Harassing Research Vessel
The China Coast Guard harassed Indonesia's oil and gas exploration activities in the Arwana Block from 17-21 October. Indonesia responded by sending its own vessels to "expel" the Chinese ship.
OCT 15, 2024
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Unlocking China's "Media Unlocked" Propagandists
China Daily's young Media Unlocked hosts pose as independent journalists dedicated to "telling the truth about China". Viewer beware.
SEP 21, 2024
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60 Minutes Goes to Sea ... and Gets Rammed
SeaLight Director Ray Powell tells the behind-the-scenes story of how the world-famous CBS program "60 Minutes" went to the Philippines to tell the world the story of how China is trying to drive its smaller neighbor out of the West Philippine Sea; how the Philippines is putting up an epic fight against steep odds; and why the world should care.
SEP 12, 2024
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China's Disinformation is Testing the Philippines' Transparency Initiative
The lack of automatic information system broadcast data on the Philippine Coast Guard vessels involved in the August 19th Sabina Shoal incident hurts the Philippines' transparency initiative, and gives room for China's disinformation tactics to set the narrative.
SEP 3, 2024
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Giant Clam Harvesting: The South China Sea's Environmental Catastrophe
While land reclamation and island-building have had the most visible impact on the South China Sea's fragile coral reef ecosystem, China's illegal but still active giant clam harvesting industry is actually the most destructive. (Image credit: CSIS Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative and Maxar Technologies)

News & Articles

MAR 27, 2025
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Japan draws up plan to evacuate 120,000 Okinawa islanders near Taiwan
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.
MAR 27, 2025
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South Korea Sets Up Floating Platform In Response To China’s Offshore Structures
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.
MAR 27, 2025
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‘US will stand with allies to stop China aggression’
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.
MAR 24, 2025
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China Is Ready to Blockade Taiwan. Here’s How.
Beijing’s armed forces have bulked up and practiced isolating the island.
MAR 24, 2025
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China's activities near Senkakus 'escalating,' says Japan minister
Chinese Coast Guard vessels still operating in Japanese territorial waters.
MAR 22, 2025
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Chinese Want You To Believe Philippines' Palawan Island is 'Part of China'
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.
MAR 20, 2025
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Philippines eyes expansion of Squad group to India, South Korea
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/
MAR 17, 2025
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What Southeast Asian Countries Can Learn from Vietnam’s History of Negotiating Territorial Disputes with China
The involvement of an extra-regional great power in a small power’s territorial disputes with China may prove counterproductive.
MAR 17, 2025
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How the Johnson South Reef Skirmish Set the Stage for China’s South China Sea Expansionism Policy
On March 14, 1988, a short but brutal naval skirmish between China and Vietnam at Johnson South Reef reshaped the region’s power dynamics.
MAR 15, 2025
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Beijing lashes out at ‘arrogant and malicious’ G7 for criticism over South China Sea and Taiwan
G7 accused China of seeking to ‘unilaterally alter status quo in such a way as to risk undermining the stability of regions’
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