China’s strategy in the South China Sea

Contemporary Southeast Asia

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 292-319

  Fravel, M Taylor ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

China; South China Sea; Spratly Islands; Strategy; Territorial disputes

Indexed keywords

EID: 85122035125     PISSN: 0129797X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1355/cs33-3b     Document Type: Article

References (10)

1. Zhou Enlai Waijiao Wenxuan [Zhou Enlai’s Selected Works on Diplomacy] (Beijing: Zhongyang wenxian chubanshe, 1990), p. 40.
2. For copies of these documents, see Guojia haiyangju zhengce fagui bangongshi [State Oceanographic Administration Office of Policy, Law, and Regulation], ed., Zhonghua Renmin Gongheguo Haiyang Fagui Xuanbian [Collection of the Maritime Laws and Regulations of the PRC] (Beijing: Haiyang chubanshe, 2001), pp. 1–14.
3. China’s note verbale to the UN Secretary General, 14 April 2011, . For a detailed analysis of China’s claims, see Peter Dutton, “Three Disputes and Three Objectives: China and the South China Sea”, Naval War College Review 64, No. 4 (2011): 42–67.
4. These are Taiping (Taiwan), Thitu (Philippines), West York (Philippines), Spratly (Vietnam) and Northeast Cay (Philippines).
5. For an examination of these Chinese views, see Peter Dutton, “Through a Chinese Lens”, Proceedings 136, no. 4 (April 2010): 24–29.
6. Based on a full-text search of database.
7. Zou Keyuan, “The Sino-Vietnamese Agreement on Maritime Boundary Delimitation in the Gulf of Tonkin”, Ocean Development and International Law 36, no. 1 (2005): 74.
8. “Qian Qichen explains China’s ‘clear-cut’ position on Spratlys issue,” Xinhua News Agency, 1 August 1995.
9. Daniel Dzurek, “The People’s Republic of China Straight Baseline Claims”, IBRU Boundary and Security Bulletin 4, no. 2 (Summer 1996): 85.
10. In a recent book, one prominent Chinese analyst describes four different interpretations of the line, including maritime sovereignty, historic waters, historic rights, and sovereignty over land features. See Wu Shicun, Nansha Zhengduan de Qiyuan yu Fazhan [The Origins and Development of the Spratlys Dispute] (Beijing: Zhongguo jingji chubanshe, 2010), pp. 32–39.