TY - CHAP
T1 - "China's caribbean"
T2 - Competing claims by the parties - A comparison in history and law
AU - Hsiung, James C.
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - The creative idea of likening China's position vis-à-vis the South China Sea (SCS) to America's position vis-à-vis the Caribbean Sea in the 19th and early 20th centuries came originally from Robert D. Kaplan. "It was," he added, "domination of the Greater Caribbean Basin that gave the United States effective control of the Western Hemisphere." I must hasten to add, though, that even until today, the U.S. control of the Caribbean remains unchallenged, unlike China's besieged leadership over the SCS region. The difference, I surmise, is due to the fact that with the sole exception of Cuba, the Caribbean is not populated by states nearly as formidable or assertive as some of the states that loom on the periphery of the SCS. One commonality, admittedly, is that states in both regions, the SCS and the Caribbean, are postcolonial creations. However, in the Caribbean, there are no likes of Vietnam and the Philippines, both of which could count on the support of the U.S. superpower in their disputes with China. The Philippines even has an alliance treaty with the United States, a feature not similarly found among the Caribbean states. None of the latter is allied with a mighty ex-regional patron comparable to the United States.
AB - The creative idea of likening China's position vis-à-vis the South China Sea (SCS) to America's position vis-à-vis the Caribbean Sea in the 19th and early 20th centuries came originally from Robert D. Kaplan. "It was," he added, "domination of the Greater Caribbean Basin that gave the United States effective control of the Western Hemisphere." I must hasten to add, though, that even until today, the U.S. control of the Caribbean remains unchallenged, unlike China's besieged leadership over the SCS region. The difference, I surmise, is due to the fact that with the sole exception of Cuba, the Caribbean is not populated by states nearly as formidable or assertive as some of the states that loom on the periphery of the SCS. One commonality, admittedly, is that states in both regions, the SCS and the Caribbean, are postcolonial creations. However, in the Caribbean, there are no likes of Vietnam and the Philippines, both of which could count on the support of the U.S. superpower in their disputes with China. The Philippines even has an alliance treaty with the United States, a feature not similarly found among the Caribbean states. None of the latter is allied with a mighty ex-regional patron comparable to the United States.
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U2 - 10.1142/9789813231108_0002
DO - 10.1142/9789813231108_0002
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:85047619561
T3 - Series on Contemporary China
SP - 19
EP - 52
BT - Series on Contemporary China
PB - World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte Ltd
ER -