https://www.scmp.com/rss/503412/feed Natalie Sambhi is Executive Director of Verve Research, an independent research collective focused on the relationship between militaries and societies in Southeast Asia, and a Research Fellow at the Perth USAsia Centre. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com No Indonesian president wants to wake up and find Chinese illegal fishing vessels flanked by the Chinese coastguard around the Natuna Islands at the edges of the South China Sea. But last month, about 63 Chinese vessels made incursions into Indonesia’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ) in the north of the country, claiming “traditional fishing rights” as the basis for their presence. In a scene that harked back to 2016, when President Joko Widodo held a cabinet meeting aboard a warship off the... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/3046573/can-india-and-indonesia-team-counter-china-indo-pacific?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/3046573/can-india-and-indonesia-team-counter-china-indo-pacific?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 17 Jan 2020 10:00:13 +0000