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The South China Sea disputes consist of many claimants and among the claimants are Brunei, China, Malaysia, Taiwan, Philippines and Vietnam. The disputes becoming complicated with each of the claimant marking their own territory based on the United Nations Conventions on The Law of the Sea (UNCLOS). Moreover, the establishment of Peta Baru by the Malaysian government led into several overlapping maritime territories along with its current territorial conflict. Hence, Malaysia enters severa...

China’s appearances in international standing started post-World War II together with the United States, Russia, France and the United Kingdom emerged as the victors of the war (Goldstein and Pevehouse 2014). China is constantly making the representation of its power-holding status through embarking strategic economic plans, modernization militarization and redirecting its focal points of foreign policy (Holmes,2015). In addition, Kliman (2014) is impressed with the 10% of the economic gro...

ASEAN region consist the important part of world as it hold three percent of the world land population and it is for ASEAN as the main regional organization to encourage its members to preserve their environment. The ASEAN region is endowed with rich natural resources that sustain essential life support systems both for the region and the world. Apart from providing water, food and energy, these natural resources play an important role in sustaining a wide range of economic activities and ...

The study would like to suggest for constructing the ideas on Malaysian cultural diplomacy, how it evolves, what are the benefits in building our national external image and branding, and what are the possible challenges and opportunities it would take into. In line with the globalised practice of the 21st century, the cultural definition and roles in foreign policy seems to be increasingly prominent with the emergence of terminologies such as “soft power”, “public diplomacy” ...

The title “Giant of Asia” will always remind the world on two Asia’s countries which are India and China. These two countries with great history and civilizations since thousands years ago become their source of pride in this modern era. Regardless of this matter, India and China can’t avoid from having dispute in terms of politics and territories with each other. The Sino-Indian War in 1962 was among the evidences that clearly showed how bad the relationship between these two countries. T...