Zhu Feng, Author at Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative

De-escalating Territorial Conflict between China and Japan

By Zhu Feng | February 4, 2015 | Categories: China, Confidence Building Measures, Japan

The first month of 2015 has witnessed a slow thawing of China-Japan relations. Following up their Beijing summit meeting in November of 2014, the two Asian giants resumed two maritime security talks in January of 2015 – one between their two defense departments, and the other working level diplomatic talks between the governments. So far […]

Oil Rig 981 Friction in the South China Sea

By Zhu Feng | December 23, 2014 | Categories: China, Vietnam, Year in Review

The friction between China and Vietnam over the oil rig Haiyang Shiyou-981 (in Vietnamese: Hải Dương-981) was a major point of South China Sea tension in 2014. The stakes were not so big that that the parties resorted to military action, but this episode was an important sign that Hanoi does not intend to swallow the […]

China’s First ADIZ Decision: One Year Later

By Zhu Feng | November 25, 2014 | Categories: ADIZ, China, East China Sea

China’s Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ) announcement on November 23, 2013 was one year ago, but frictions around the decision still remain. Tokyo insists that it rejects the ADIZ, and no Japanese civilian flights file their passage as requested. The United States has toned down its initial opposition, but no U.S. military planes obey Chinese […]