Water Wars
Rim of the Pacific and Its Discontents
Sean Quirk Wed, Sep 23, 2020, 8:01 AM
The past month in the Indo-Pacific saw flyovers of military exercises, anti-ship ballistic missiles and rising Taiwan tensions.
Sean Quirk is a JD/MPP joint-degree student at Harvard Law School and Harvard Kennedy School. He holds a BA in Political Science from Columbia University and served as a surface warfare officer in the U.S. Navy for five years. The views expressed here are his own and do not reflect those of the Department of Defense, the U.S. Navy, or any other agency of the United States Government.
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Water Wars
Water Wars: Lines in the Great Wall of Sand
Sean Quirk Mon, Aug 17, 2020, 8:01 AM
Summer in the South China Sea—a hardened U.S. policy, extensive naval operations and a Twitter skirmish.
Water Wars
Water Wars: The Pandemic’s Great Power Competition at Sea
Sean Quirk Wed, Jun 24, 2020, 12:26 PM
Chinese aggression and a ubiquitous U.S. military are becoming the new normal for the pandemic’s “great power competition” in the Indo-Pacific.
Water Wars
Water Wars: Coronavirus Spreads Risk of Conflict Around the South China Sea
Sean Quirk Tue, Apr 7, 2020, 6:41 PM
As the coronavirus upends military operations across the Indo-Pacific, naval powers commit to costly signaling on Taiwan and the South China Sea.
South China Sea
Water Wars: Stare Decisis in the South China Sea
Sean Quirk Mon, Jan 6, 2020, 8:25 AM
Malaysia and Indonesia lawfare salvos against China, the first made-in-China aircraft carrier and a Japanese military strategy for the South China Sea.
Water Wars
Water Wars: Drill, Maybe, Drill
Sean Quirk Mon, Oct 7, 2019, 8:32 AM
China and Vietnam are poised for confrontation over oil drilling in the southwestern portion of the South China Sea. Vietnam alleges that a Chinese survey vessel, Haiyang Dizhi 8, has been conducting an oil and gas survey within Vietnam’s Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) since July 2019.
Water Wars
Water Wars: A Sinking Feeling in Philippine-China Relations
Sean Quirk Thu, Jun 27, 2019, 3:36 PM
Philippine and Chinese officials will launch a joint investigation into the at-sea collision that left 22 Filipino fishermen stranded in the South China Sea. On June 9—the official Philippines-China Friendship Day—a Chinese vessel rammed and sank a Philippine fishing vessel near Reed Bank (known in Tagalog as Recto Bank), northeast of the Spratly Islands, and reportedly fled after the collision. A Vietnamese fishing vessel later rescued the Filipino crew members who had been left in the water.