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The United States is not trying to push ASEAN countries to choose sides in its strategic rivalry with China, a senior US foreign policy official has insisted, as the Western superpower continues to call out Beijing’s aggressive “bullying” in the South China Sea.
Joe Biden, who was the vice president in Barack Obama’s administration, may presently be more optimistic about his chances for victory. His new running mate is the assiduous Senator Kamala Harris: They currently beat Trump in almost every major US swing state by several percentage points.
Indonesia will seek to prove it has legal and exclusive rights to waters beyond 200 nautical miles north of Papua province when it makes its case at the United Nations this week in a bid to expand its territory in search of potential mineral reserves.
China’s new envoy to ASEAN has arrived in Jakarta facing growing pressure from the increasingly vigilant bloc as its top diplomats put more emphasis on compliance to international law in ongoing negotiations for a final and binding code of conduct (COC) on the South China Sea.
Traditional fishermen have long been driven away by Chinese and Vietnamese vessels dominating the Natuna islands' fishing grounds, but a fresh spat with China has given them a new lease on life at sea.
Indonesia has dismissed China’s invitation to sit down for a dialogue to "manage disputes” over Indonesia’s exclusive economic zones (EEZ) in the North Natuna Sea in Riau Islands province, arguing that there are no overlapping claims there – a message Indonesia has sent consistently since 2016.
As we commemorate the 62nd anniversary of the Djuanda Declaration, Indonesians, especially the younger generation, should have proper knowledge and perspective about how the archipelagic-state concept came about and the price paid for gaining that recognition, so we can better preserve this legacy for generations to come.
