China’s Rise and its Implications for ASEAN Region: A Case Study of South China Sea
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.54418/ca-84.18Keywords:
South China Sea, Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN), United Nations Convention on Law of Sea.Abstract
During the last four decades, China has achieved a status of a powerful state with a huge soft power, integration in the international economy, growing middle class along with increasing participation in international institutions and stock exchanges. Not only it has participated into international institutions but has also set new economic regimes like Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) and Belt & Road Initiative (BRI). China’s growing thrust for developments, energy and resources, has enabled it for huge claims within South China Sea. Its recent steps of creating artificial islands in South China Sea and future air bases on them along with other developments are quite notable and have been perceived as China’s shift from a soft power to hard power. South China Sea is extremely significant Sea with its geostrategic importance being the second busiest trade routes. Approximately 60 percent of Japanese and Taiwanese energy resources raw material is supplied through the South China Sea. At the same time the Sea is highly rich in energy resources and different analysis have been made to give an estimate of gas and oil reserves in South China Sea. Due to geostrategic significance of the Sea neighboring countries have asserted their claims on its various Islands however; mainly conflict is over islands of Spartly and Paracel. The ongoing territorial conflict and resulting tension is creating troubles for the regional peace by making regional as well as global powers to be concerned over China’s activities. The study will be investigated under the Sea Power theory of Mahan that how the balance of power is taking shift within region in wake of rise of China, and how it will breed implications for region.
References
Agus Rustandi, “The South China Sea Dispute: Opportunities for ASEAN to enhance its policies in order to achieve resolution”, Australian Defense College, Centre for Defense and Strategic Studies, APRIL 2016, P.2-15.
Alfred Thayer Mahan, The Interest of America in Sea Power, Present and Future, Boston: Little, Brown and company, 1898) 10-210.
Alfred Thayer Mahan, The Problem of Asia and Its Effect upon International Policies (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1900), 90-198.
ASEAN to enter South China Sea talks with China as a group”,(April 25, 2013).
Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, https://www.aiib.org/en/index.html.
Bill Hayton, The South China Sea: The Struggle for Power in Asia . New Haven: Yale University Press, 2014
China Building Airstrip in Spratly Islands, Satellite Images Show”, Wall Street Journal, April 16, 2015.
China’s Maritime Disputes”, Council on Foreign Relations online, (2013).
David Dollar,“China’s rise as a regional and global power: The AIIB and the ‘one belt, one road”, July 15, 2015.https://www.brookings.edu/research/chinas-rise-as-a-regional-and-global-power-the-aiib-and-the-one-belt-one-road/
Francis P Sempa, “The Geopolitical Vision of Alfred Thayer Mahan, One hundred years later, the insights of the American strategist continue to have extraordinary relevance today”, The Diplomat, 2014.
Isaac Stone Fish, Keith Johnson. China’s New Airstrip in the South China Sea Is Almost Completed, Foreign Policy, APRIL 16, 2015.
Jane Perlez, “Tribunal Rejects Beijing's Claims in South China Sea”, New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/13/world/asia/south-china-sea-hague-ruling-philippines.html?_r=0 , July 12th 2016.
Jerome Alan Cohen and Hung Dah Chiu, People's China and International Law, Vol. 1, p. 548. Letter between delegation of China Fishery Association and the delegate of Japan. China Fishery Council, 1963.
Jerome Alan Cohen, People's China and International Law, Volume 2: A Documentary Study. Maryland:Princeton University Press,2017
Johnny Langenheim, “Preventing Ecocide in South China Sea”, The Guardian, http://www.theguardian.com/environment/the-coral-triangle/2015/jul/15/preventing-ecocide-insouth-china-sea, July 15, 2015.
Joshua Kurlantzick, “China’s Charm: Implications of Chinese Soft Power”, Policy Brief,no.47(2006)
Kaplan, Robert. Asia's Cauldron, p.15.
Kim Poon Shee, “The South China Sea in China's Strategic Thinking”, Contemporary Southeast Asia 19 no. 4
Law of the Sea Conference”, Vol. IV, p. 168, Art. 118
Mark Valencia J.; Van Dyke, Jon M.; Ludwig, Noel A., Sharing the Resources of the South China Sea. Huwaii: University of Hawaii Press, 1999
Mark, Sharing the Resources of the South China Sea.
Martin H. Katchen, “The Spratly Islands and the Law of the Sea: "Dangerous Ground" for Asian Peace”, Asian Survey17, no. 12 Dec., 197
Mohan Malik, “Historical Fiction: China's South China Sea Claims” World Affairs 176, no. 1 (MAY / JUNE 2013), pp. 83-90.
Pham Nga, “Vietnam's anger over China maritime moves”, BBC News (2011,June 6)
Robert D Kaplan, “The Geography of Chinese Power: How Far Can Beijing Reach on Land and at Sea?”, Foreign Affairs 89, no.3, May/June 2010
Robert D Kaplan, Asia's Cauldron: The South China Sea and the End of a Stable Pacific. New York: Random House Publishing Group, 2014
Shane Vrabel, “The Hague Ruling and Disputed Claims in the, South China Sea”, Centre for Geopolitics & Security in Realism Studies,28 July2016.
Simi Mehta, Rebalancing: Part of its Grand Strategy?, US IN ASIA PACIFIC,( New Delhi: The Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies IPCS, 2014, May , 16).
South China Sea”, Energy Information Administration (EIA), 2013.
The South China Sea Arbitration Award (Pca Registry: Permanent Court of Arbitration,12 July 2016).
The South China Sea is an important world energy trade route”, APRIL 4, 2013.
Third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea 1973-1982 Concluded at Montego Bay, Jamaica on 10 December 1982 Document:- A/CONF.62/SR.187 187th Plenary meeting
UN Convention on Law of Sea”, http://www.un.org/depts/los/convention_agreements/texts/unclos/unclos_e.pdf
Downloads
Published
How to Cite
Issue
Section
