By Lin Chia-nan / Staff reporter, in KAOHSIUNGMembers of a key US think tank last month visited the Ocean Affairs Council (OAC) to discuss issues related to the South China Sea, council officials said yesterday. The council, which was established on April 28 last year, held a news conference at its headquarters in Kaohsiung to explain its achievements over the past year. The foundation is influential in Japan and might help Taiwan attend the Our Ocean Conference launched by former US secretary of state John Kerry in 2014, he said. As some oceanographers have objected to handing over their data to the council, it continues to negotiate with them regarding the database’s management, Lin said. Due to the sensitivity of certain maritime data, the academy would boost information security measures for the database, he added.

Source: Taipei Times June 05, 2019 15:56 UTC