For decades, overlapping territorial claims to the South China Sea have had a destabilizing effect in East and Southeast Asia, with broader implications beyond the region. Four ASEAN countries (Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Vietnam) are direct claimants in the South China Sea conflict....
Ultimately,the conflict between Chinese and US sea powers in the South China Sea is between the hegemon's control and emerging powers carrying out countermeasures. 展开 关键词: post-Cold War era sea-power the South China Sea disputes the Sino-US relations ...
China's claim and has been conducting freedom of navigation exercises. Several tense standoffs have already threatened to throw the area into conflict, including in 2012 when the Philippines Navy intercepted several Chinese fishermen off Scarborough Shoal. During the 1970s and 1980s, China and Viet...
The area became a flashpoint and most debated after the Korean conflict as political tension grew over the territorial sovereignty of the South China Seas Islands. Chinese ambitious plans of building artificial islands which began to implement in 2016 on the large swathes of South China Sea within...
The South China Sea Maritime Dispute: Legality, Power, and Conflict Prevention Tensions in the South China Sea have risen in recent years for reasons related to conflicting territorial claims and rivalry, competition for access to fish stocks as well as oil and gas fields, and in China`s case...
WASHINGTON (AP) — China bluntly told the United States to stop sending ships and military aircraft close to islands claimed by Beijing in the South China Sea, during talks that set the stage for a meeting between President Donald Trump and President Xi
“If China and the Philippines can reach an agreement on the exploration and development of oil and gas resources in the South China Sea, it will be a breakthrough in economic cooperation in the region and will largely promote the safety of the Asia-Pacific,” Gu said. ...
21. Prepare to deal with Japan two-handed, we will not actively provoke armed confrontation but if Japan does then we will take a hardline stance and make them feel more pain than us in order to avoid an even greater conflict. 22. This year there have been marines on board CMS Haijian...
It’s widely accepted that the South China Sea is a geopolitical flashpoint that could inadvertently trigger a regional, even international conflict. But how did it get to this point? Broadly speaking theSouth China Sea disputeboils down to the question of how borders should be delineated in the...
Marines’ amphibious assault vehicle train in the South China Sea, October 6, 2018. As a new DIA report makes clear, China is rapidly gaining confidence in its military power. Any action will be at a time and place of China’s choosing, when they believe they can win a conflict—or ...