US Secretary of Defense James Mattis is in China this week for the first time and at the top of the agenda between the two nations is China's continued expansion of military installations in the S...
Italy's new right-wing populist interior minister, Matteo Salvini, campaigned on an anti-immigrant platform. Now, he's made good on his election promise by forbidding a ship carrying refugees ...
LONDON (East Asia Forum) -- Vietnam has lost another sea battle: a US$200 million oil and gas development project — known as the"Red Emperor" development — off Vietnam’s so...
HAIKOU (IPP Review) -- For many years, Taiwan’s interests and role in the South China Sea disputes have essentially been officially ignored. But with the election of U.S. President Donald J. Tru...
The United States, Japan and Australia on Monday urged all claimant countries in the South China Sea to cease land reclamations, constructions and other "coercive unilateral actions" that ar...
Taipei, July 27 (CNA) Former President Ma Ying-jeou said the Taiwanese people are "furious" about a ruling handed down by a tribunal in favor of the Philippines in its case challenging the legitimacy ...
Francis Jardeleza, an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines, admitted Wednesday that even though the ruling of an arbitration tribunal in The Hague is absolutely favorable to the P...
Taipei, July 12 (CNA) Ahead of an international court decision on the South China Sea that could weaken Taiwan's claims to Taiping Island, Taiwan said Tuesday that it has continued to exchange views...
Taipei, May 17 (CNA) President Ma Ying-jeou wrote in a letter published in the Wall Street Journal Monday that a claim by the Philippines that Taiwan-controlled Taiping Island is just a rock in the S...
Taipei, April 29 (CNA) President Ma Ying-jeou said Friday that Japan's claim that the Okinotori atoll is an "island" violates the rights of fishermen everywhere and that Taiwan is not ruling out the i...
Taipei, April 25 (CNA) President Ma Ying-jeou said Monday Japan's detention of a Taiwanese fishing boat in a disputed area of the Pacific was unacceptable, while the family of detained captain Pan Chi...
Taipei, April 14 (CNA) President Ma Ying-jeou on Thursday reiterated that the Republic of China (Taiwan) holds sovereignty over Taiping Island and said that any international court ruling that downgra...
Taipei, March 24 (CNA) President-elect Tsai Ing-wen has not been invited by the incumbent president to visit Taiping Island in the disputed South China Sea and has no immediate plans to do so, a spoke...
President Ma Ying-jeou’s trip to Taiping Island (also known as Itu Aba Island) last week has been widely seen by observers as a hoax and pretense to jot his name down in history books. But truth be kn...
