Collin Koh 🇸🇬🇺🇦
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Indo-Pacific naval affairs, maritime security, mainly SE Asia and SCS. *Tweets/RTs STRICTLY personal. Proud Singaporean and happy father of 2 beautiful girls.
The Strait of Malacca is no Strait of Hormuz, and imposing transit fees there would be a strategic mistake for Indonesia, writes Trystanto Sanjaya. eastasiaforum.org/2026/07/14/ind…
"South China Sea Arbitration": invalid from the start. A farce to the end. #SouthChinaSea #AIAnimation #AIRealmStudio
#Opinion: Wherever you choose to provoke, there China responds; whatever means you use to exert pressure, with equal intensity China pushes back. globaltimes.cn/page/202607/13…
Mr. Jay Tarriela is once again turning facts upside down. If anyone is undermining peace and stability in the South China Sea, it is not China. According to incomplete statistics, the Philippine side has dispatched more than 100 aircraft to illegally intrude into the airspace over China's Huangyan Dao since the beginning of 2026, while repeatedly sending vessels to provoke incidents at sea. These actions are the real source of tensions. The past ten years have made one fact unmistakably clear: the so-called arbitral award has resolved nothing. Instead, it has been used by the Philippines as a pretext for infringement and provocation, while giving external forces an excuse to interfere in the South China Sea. Rather than promoting peace or stability, it has become a stumbling block to improving China-Philippines relations and maintaining regional peace and stability. ——Deputy Spokesperson of the Chinese Embassy Guo Wei
China deplores and rejects the joint statement issued by the U.S. and the Philippines together with several European countries as well as the statement from the EU ten years after the “South China Sea arbitration award”. The statements are a distortion of facts and act of vilification against China. China’s sovereignty over Nanhai Zhudao and relevant rights and interests in the South China Sea were established in the long course of history, and are solidly grounded in the law. Double standards on issues concerning international law will only further erode relevant European countries’ own credibility. China urges the EU side to stop endorsing the illegal “award” and not to affect the China-EU ties and cooperation.
"A just cause wins support, while an unjust one loses it," Chinese Ambassador to the Philippines Jing Quan said in response to the Philippines' so-called "#SouthChinaSea Arbitration Award," stressing that the so-called "award" cannot possibly win the endorsement of the international community and will inevitably be swept into the garbage heap of history.
“The Philippines will most likely continue its provocative moves. Nevertheless, the international community has generally seen through the numerous defects of the illegitimate #SouthChinaSea arbitration award. In the long run, it will only be further ignored and discarded by the international community,” said an expert on provocations made by the Philippines and some non-regional countries a decade on from the “arbitration award” farce. globaltimes.cn/page/202607/13…
The South China Sea is no longer a passive arena for great-power projection, and the countries within it are fully capable of managing their own affairs. The region is not a "backyard" for external powers, nor is China a country that can be coerced through intimidation. Attempts to use a so-called joint statement and strategic pressure to influence China's development trajectory are unlikely to succeed. On the contrary, such efforts risk further eroding trust and increasing tensions. For more: bit.ly/3R9kTwo
