August 22, 2024
Understanding China-Philippines' dangerous South China Sea face-offs
The situation in the South China Sea is more worrying than that in the Taiwan Strait, says Indo Pacific security expert Lisa Curtis, former top US official and now Senior Fellow and Director of the Indo Pacific Security Programme at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS), a strategy think tank in Washington, DC.
“People look at the Taiwan Strait, they worry about 2027, but I think we need to focus on the South China Sea; that is where I am most concerned about a future conflict involving the U.S. and China,” Ms Curtis told ST’s Asian Insider podcast.
Listen to the full episode from The Straits Times.
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