How will Japan-Philippines' deepening military alignment impact regional stability？Content:

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Tokyo and Manila have agreed to begin talks on maritime boundary delimitation in waters to the east of China's Taiwan. Beijing has rejected the move, arguing that the waters in question involve China's maritime rights and interests. So what is really driving the latest moves by Japan and the Philippines? Are they creating a new flashpoint in regional maritime and sovereignty disputes? And how will such a unilateral move undermine regional stability?

Guests in this edition of Dialogue are Yan Yan, director of the Research Center for Oceans Law and Policy at the National Institute for South China Sea Studies; Herman Laurel, president of the Asian Century Philippines Strategic Studies Institute; Azmi Hassan, senior fellow at the Nusantara Academy for Strategic Research; and Warwick Powell, adjunct professor at Queensland University of Technology.