policy toward the South China Sea (SCS) threatens Asian-Pacific regional stability while flaunting international law and order. Our goal should be to prevent the emergence of an overly powerful and combative China‚ promote and enforce stabilizing international law‚ and secure vital SCS trade routes for U.S. and allied interests. Prospective policy options include; (1) the facilitation of multilateral negotiations between a unified Asian organization and China‚ (2) forcing China to back down by threatening
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The South China Sea has been in dispute for many years‚ but now the tensions are increasing. The conflict between China‚ United States‚ and other Asian countries such as Japan‚ Philippines‚ and Vietnam question the sovereignty of the South China Sea. An area that the United States believes to be international waters is now being built up with artificial islands. With the sea containing an important trade route‚ and potentially a supply of oil‚ the conflict between China and many countries remains
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What factors caused the dispute of South Chain Sea? Human beings’ passion towards oceans derives from not only the curiosity caused by limited cognitive capabilities and inadequate experiences but also the huge economic interests. According to him.Coastal waters around the world are experiencing increasing demand for their diverse human benefits‚ or ecosystem services. Actually in face of ever-decreasing land resources‚ for example‚ oil‚ nature gas‚ fuel oil‚ oceans came into people’s sights considered
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University of the Philippines System Website >> UP Forum >> Managing the West Philippine Sea* Managing the West Philippine Sea* Posted on August 28‚ 2013 by Carlos L. Agustin‚ Lauro Baja Jr.‚ Leticia Ramos-Shahani‚ Aileen S.P. Baviera‚ et al. in UP Forum http://www.up.edu.ph/managing-the-west-philippine-sea/ 1 This white paper was prepared by the WPS Informal Expert Group‚ and dowloaded from the UP Asian Center’s foreign policy website (http://philippinesintheworld.org/?q=node/164). An abridged
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Boomer Flette Geology UNCLOS- Why the United States has not signed the UN Convention of Law of the Seas The UNCLOS is an agreement that creates the lawful ground under which Somali pirates are put on trial. It also controls the activity in the Polar Regions as it liquefies and weakens the defensive entitlements behind the expanding confidence of the regime of China. The leaders of defense and state departments‚ together with chief-ranking of army officers in the United States‚ petitioned
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Paper: The Deteriorating Relationship between China and Philippines The South China Sea is the world’s largest sea. According to the Guinness Book of Records‚ it covers 1‚148‚500 square miles. In the last 2‚500 years mariners for Malaysia‚ China and Indonesia navigated the South China Sea to trade sandalwood‚ silk‚ tea and spices. Today it carries roughly a third of the world’s shipping and accounts for a tenth of the world’s fish catch. China‚ Vietnam‚ Taiwan‚ Malaysia‚ Indonesia‚ Brunei and
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GLOBALISATION AND INDIA-CHINA RELATIONS There is a shift in the nature of the relations between India and China from a purely territotial perspective in the post-independence period to the economic perspective in the post globalization and liberalization period .This has resulted in both positive and negative ramifications because of both state and non-state factors. POSITIVE IMPACTS: TRADE: The trade between the two countries has been increasing since the 1990s and has reached $67 billion
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Does good order at sea prevail in the Asia Pacific region? Introduction The Asia Pacific geographically contains considerably complicate areas comprising long coastline and the largest archipelago area of the world. The Pacific Ocean occupies approximately 50 percent of the ocean surface . The diversity of races‚ religions believes and historical backgrounds significantly influence difficulties and cooperation among the countries. Its security circumstances have been multiplied by the current
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prominent challenges facing China in coming years: dependence on imported oil‚ rising ratio of energy consumption to GDP‚ and environmental degradation (Fewsmith 246). While all of these issues are in one way or another being discussed by China’s policy makers‚ they are far behind the U.S. in amending their policies for the better. For example‚ though China’s energy bureau has doubled their staff from 50 to 112‚ this number is still minuscule compared to the US Department of Energy’s 14‚713 staff members. - China has
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ESSAY 1 ------------------------------------------------- To be attempted by: LW453 students ------------------------------------------------- Maximum length: 3000 words ------------------------------------------------- Worth: 30% ------------------------------------------------- Due: 15 April 2013 INSTRUCTIONS: The Research Essay involves research and drafting original and critical legal analysis of an international environmental law issue‚ related to the treaty you have selected
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