https://www.scmp.com/rss/324694/feed Benoit Hardy-Chartrand, a senior research associate at the Centre for International Governance Innovation, joined the Global Security and Politics Programme in April 2014. In this role, he is providing research for CIGI’s work on Asia-Pacific security. Prior to joining CIGI, he was an associate researcher at the Raoul-Dandurand Chair of Strategic and Diplomatic Studies and a junior fellow at United Nations University in Tokyo, in addition to conducting research at the Shanghai Institutes for... en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Much has changed and much remains the same since the Hague’s Permanent Court of Arbitration ruled on rivalling claims to the South China Sea just over a year ago. Dampening China’s ambitions in the highly contested area, the court ruled that China had no historical right over the South China Sea, recognising instead that Beijing violated the Philippines’ sovereign rights in its exclusive economic zone. Hailed by some as a potential turning point after years of tensions, the ruling remains at the... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2102376/false-calm-south-china-sea-should-lull-no-one?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2102376/false-calm-south-china-sea-should-lull-no-one?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 14 Jul 2017 04:02:13 +0000 South Korea’s new progressive president, Moon Jae-in, has come to power at a delicate time as the country struggles with a sluggish economy, high tensions with North Korea and frayed ties with China, its top trading partner. Though relations between Pyongyang and Beijing top Seoul’s foreign policy agenda, Moon has made improved ties with Japan a key objective. But obstacles remain to sustainable reconciliation. A major step forward was seen to have been made in late 2015, with a deal on the... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2100324/can-abe-and-moon-shake-burden-wartime-wrongs-tackle-present?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2100324/can-abe-and-moon-shake-burden-wartime-wrongs-tackle-present?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 28 Jun 2017 08:38:28 +0000