I SSUES & INS IGHTS AUGUST 2024 VOL. 24

As part of this wider effort, and in response to the escalating aggression on the part of China, the US Coast Guard (USCG) announced on June 3 its decision to redeploy ships from its Northern Pacific Command to the West Philippine Sea in support of the Philippine’s own 8 Dangerous Confrontation in the South China Sea: The issues, the US-Japan-Philippines alliance and what can be done about the thr. [...] Although the issue was eventually typhoon Haiyan in November 2013 in which nearly resolved through compromise, the wider 250,000 people were affected, many people, including implications of the case did significant damage to the then-Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte, criticized image of the US forces in the Philippines and to the the government response. [...] 14 PRC’s Gray Zone Activities and Pressure on Taiwan - The Kinmen Speedboat Accident and beyond Introduction: Stirring the Waters The Kinmen Speedboat Accident n the shadow of the Taiwan Strait, an An unregistered and unnamed speedboat from the I unregistered speedboat from the PRC capsizes, PRC entered the disputed waters established by stirring the waters in more ways than one. [...] Previously, the Undermining the Narrative and Eroding activities of the CCG in the waters around Taiwan Confidence in the Taiwanese Government: The were not as conspicuous as those in the East and PRC’s actions are designed to forge narratives that South China Seas. [...] the government had to approach the issue as the The Yoon administration remains concerned that the savior, a role it enjoyed during the state-led economic disadvantages Korean companies will face as a growth of the 1970s and 1980s, where it was the consequence of the IRA may cause Koreans to feel government’s role in Seoul to foster and protect betrayed and disappointed towards the US.