Malaysia authorities have located and retrieved a huge tanker carrying oil and gas that was hijacked Thursday in the Straits of Singapore. The MT Nautica Johor Bahru was accompanied by a barge and was carrying close to $4.6 million USD worth of oil and gas when it was hijacked by pirates. The owners alerted Malasian maritime authorities on Friday […]
Shangri-La dialogue
This year, at the foremost conference on Asia-Pacific security, the Shangri-La Dialogue, China’s rising power and aggression will be at the forefront of the talks. The conference, organized by the independent think tank the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), is one of the only forums in which foreign ministers of all countries with an […]
Internal challenges remain primary obstacle for Philippine military growth
The President of the Philippines has pledged to bring his military’s capabilities up to respectable levels; however, citizens of the country remain highly skeptical that military improvements can effectively be made given the country’s history of corruption associated with military spending. Amidst an active maritime border dispute with China, President Benigno Aquino III promised to increase the defense […]
Asia powers double defense spending
China’s recent explosion in defense spending has caused a regional response from other powers– Asia’s top players have doubled their defense spending in the past decade, creating a regional arms race that isn’t helping geopolitical tensions. Although there hasn’t been a significant increase in human capital, defense spending has skyrocketed nonetheless, according to a new […]
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