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Keeping tabs on China’s murky maritime manoeuvres
America and its allies are using whizzy new tools to track China’s military activity and illegal fishing. IN JANUARY 2021 a fleet of Chinese fishing vessels approached the coast of Oman, apparently..
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Ukraine Strikes Back Against Russia as World’s 1st Drone War Escalates
While the Ukrainian authorities typically prefer not to acknowledge responsibility for individual incidents, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has publicly warned that the war is now “returning..
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Battle For Indian Ocean: How EU And India Can Strengthen Maritime Security
China’s strategic use of ports, as well as its growing military presence in the maritime space in general, has increasingly aroused the displeasure of other actors in the Indian Ocean, including..
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Weekly Maritime Security Threat Advisory 21st August 2023
Access the latest Maritime Security Threat Advisory for the week commencing 21st August 2023.
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Iran’s Raisi demands return of $7 billion in frozen assets from S. Korea
A sum of $7 billion in revenue from the sale of petrochemical and oil products is being withheld from the Islamic Republic of Iran between two South Korean banks, Iranian state-run Mehr News Agency..
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Russia In The Black Sea: The Law Of Armed Conflict At Sea Needs Due Consideration Alongside UNCLOS
The Law of Armed Conflict (LOAC) applicable at sea must be considered alongside the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) 1982 and military intent of the Kremlin for influence of Russian..
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Maritime security in the Black Sea is an international problem
The West – with or without the US Navy – needs to return to the Black Sea to help break the maritime blockade, protect humanitarian shipping to fight global famine, and, not least, uphold universal..
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Did Russia commit a war crime in leaving the Ukraine grain deal?
On July 17, Russia announced that it had withdrawn from the Black Sea Grain Initiative (“the Initiative”), a deal brokered in 2022 by the United Nations (UN) and Turkey that allowed Ukraine to safely..
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