Four Phases of South China Sea Disputes 1990–2020

Territorial Disputes in the South China Sea: Implications for Security in Asia and Beyond

The growing tension between China and a number of countries in Southeast Asia over the contested waters of the South China Sea has become one of the biggest potential flashpoints in the region—thus, a good indicator to use in testing the “China threat.” Concurrently, America’s handling of this “Asian problem” is becoming a litmus test for the future status of US primacy as the nation faces cruc...

A THREAT LOOMS LARGE: CHINA’S TERRITORIAL DISPUTES IN THE SOUTH CHINA SEA, 1989-2011 By Tuan

South China Sea Takes

South China Sea Takes Center Stage At the Fourth Annual Symposium of the International Pacific Research Center, several researchers presented their recent findings on South China Sea climate. A group has now formed under the leadership of IPRC’s Tangdong Qu to coordinate the research in this important climate region. The following pages feature the discovery of how the play among winds, ocean, ...

Four Disputes About Properties

My intention in this paper is to spell out four great issues that divide philosophers who think about the metaphysics of properties. The issues are largely independent of each other. The way the cats jump on one does not seem greatly to prejudge the way they will jump on the other issues. I shall indicate my preferences, but I shall be as much concerned to survey the scene as to push my particu...

Status of Rocks in the Law of the Sea with Relying on the South China Sea Arbitration Award

Abstract Islands and rocks are entitled different maritime zones in international law of the sea. Article 121(3) allocated to rocks has articulated briefly and without indicating any definitions or characters of this feature. Paragraph 3 provided two conditions for rocks in order to create exclusive economic zone and continental shelf zone. The South China Sea tribunal has interpreted this pa...