“Freedom of Navigation...refers to the FoN for a specific country’s warships; ...upholding the FoN essentially refers to the perpetuation by military means of the idealized (imagined) prosperous and universally beneficial US-led ‘Western’ dominance”. https
“Concerns with the freedom of navigation [in the South China Sea] are largely unrelated to the safety of maritime transport. Instead, they serve as proxy for an increasingly static imagination of international order..” @ChWirthNEAsia in The Pacific Review
RT @chwirthNEAsia: A closer look at what is behind the talk about FON and challenges to the rules-based order: Whose ‘Freedom of Navigation…
RT @chwirthNEAsia: A closer look at what is behind the talk about FON and challenges to the rules-based order: Whose ‘Freedom of Navigation…