March 2016

​Recently, the saga in the South China Sea (SCS) is gaining heat due to the following three continued developments: 1. The Philippines’ challenge on China’s sovereignty claim, a U shaped ocean boundary in the SCS, including Spratly islands (On Oct. 29, 2015, the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague claimed jurisdiction over the case). Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunei and Indonesia all have disputes...

The symposium on South China Sea: Conflict or Cooperation jointly co-sponsored with the USC US-China Institute on March 4, 2016was a very successful event.  For some of you who were not able to attend the event, the good news is that you can view it on computer now.  For Professor Fu’s speech, which gave a clear and objective presentation of viewpoints from a Chinese perspective, please...

In this column, organic views are mostly presented with no authors’ names simply because the sources of organic views are either anonymous or wish to be unnamed. Naturally, it is wise to be cautious in reading Internet emails even online publications, never taking them for granted as truth. One must exercise judgment on the messages and facts cited therein. If the material is of significance or of...