TY - CHAP
T1 - The provenance and ramifications of the SCS conflicts
T2 - Law, resources, and geopolitics
AU - Hsiung, James C.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - The South China Sea (SCS) may, by common sense, be assumed to be part of the Pacific Ocean. But, in this book, we treat it as a separate body of waters in its own right, due to its distinctive status arising from a combination of four peculiar factors: (a) its vital importance as a hubbub of trade, since one-third of the world's shipping (valued at $5.3 trillion in 2015) sails through its waters; (b) its abundant resources, including oil and natural gas; (c) the wide attention it commands because of the clashes arising from the neighboring nations' overlapping sovereign claims; and (d) post-2010 U.S. geopolitical interests in the region as a strategic site of rivalry with the rerising China, although largely dressed as a freedom of navigation dispute.
AB - The South China Sea (SCS) may, by common sense, be assumed to be part of the Pacific Ocean. But, in this book, we treat it as a separate body of waters in its own right, due to its distinctive status arising from a combination of four peculiar factors: (a) its vital importance as a hubbub of trade, since one-third of the world's shipping (valued at $5.3 trillion in 2015) sails through its waters; (b) its abundant resources, including oil and natural gas; (c) the wide attention it commands because of the clashes arising from the neighboring nations' overlapping sovereign claims; and (d) post-2010 U.S. geopolitical interests in the region as a strategic site of rivalry with the rerising China, although largely dressed as a freedom of navigation dispute.
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U2 - 10.1142/9789813231108_0001
DO - 10.1142/9789813231108_0001
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:85047604065
T3 - Series on Contemporary China
SP - 1
EP - 18
BT - Series on Contemporary China
PB - World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte Ltd
ER -