Fravel, who will extend his studies of Asia's ongoing maritime disputes, said he was "thrilled, humbled, and honored" to receive the fellowship.
China's ongoing maritime territorial disputes with its Asian neighbours, some of which are strongly allied with the US, are also a potential problem.
"China's actions in 2011 with respect to ongoing land and maritime territorial disputes with neighbors," the report said, "reflected a mix of contentment with the status quo, renewed efforts to reassure wary neighbors, and continued willingness (particularly through the use of paramilitary maritime law enforcement assets) to assert Chinese claims".
Several ongoing projects are harvesting maritime biomass from the Baltic Sea for eutrophication mitigation and utilisation of the recovered biomass.
With the new Chinese-initiated Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, the expanded Shanghai Cooperation Council, and the ongoing lawfare related to maritime claims, China is slowly but surely promoting its own political and social values as alternatives to existing U.S. dominated international institutions.
Carter said he planned to talk with officials in Vietnam about ongoing U.S. efforts to provide maritime defensive weapons to the country.
This research was carried out in the context of testing a prototype maritime informatics device (study ongoing), which provided shared navigation information to the members of the distributed pilotage team, including Captains, Pilots, and Tug masters.
Economic and trade ties have also been ongoing during these times when Chinese maritime traders had trade dealings with inhabitants of the coastal area along the Indian Ocean, and the Gulf of Aden and Persia and wherever merchants from different directions met (Filesi 1972: 1-10).
While the EDCA is being challenged in the Supreme Court and related hearings have focused on how the US would respond to hypothetical situations concerning Chinese aggression with respect to maritime disputes, the need for ongoing military modernization to establish a minimum credible defense remains (Amador 2014).
But even with the ongoing deployment of the new P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft in the region, there are yawning gaps in Navy intelligence, surveillance and recon.
The land borders are defined in large part by geological features such as the Perlis River, the Golok River and the Pagalayan Canal, whilst some of the maritime boundaries are the subject of ongoing contention.
