Philippines

Jakarta’s proposed defense ties with Beijing risk upsetting ASEAN’s fragile balance.

Resources, nationalism, and domestic audiences are pushing Vietnam and the Philippines towards confrontation with China.

Recent events illustrate the need to do more to protect religious freedoms in Southeast Asia.

Tensions in the South China Sea scuttled last week’s ASEAN summit, but Joshua Kurlantzick offers hope.

Questions remain over how the Scarborough Shoal standoff will finally be resolved. But recent events should have reassured China’s leaders that hard power isn’t always necessary.

The Scarborough Shoal standoff between the Philippines and China looks effectively over. Where was ASEAN?

Tensions in the South China Sea keep rising. But cooperation on energy infrastructure might cool things down.

The standoff at Scarborough Shoal isn’t the only reason that the public in the Philippines is wary of China.

The Scarborough Shoal between the Philippines and China is still rumbling on. Can Manila come out on top?

The U.S. must stand by its treaty ally the Philippines. Not doing would send a troubling message to other allies.

China doesn’t want a military conflict over the Scarborough Shoal. A clash now would only unite ASEAN.

The U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea is as much as anything else about fundamental disagreements between the U.S. and China. The U.S. shouldn’t sign up.