Contemporary South China Sea Issues: The Strategic Choices Of Selected Southeast Asia States

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has responded with a major buildup of its military forces on the Natuna Islands to exercise its rights on protecting its sovereignty but cautiously taking into consideration its foreign relations with China. Thirdly, the paper will look at the strategic choices taken by both countries so far, especially with the stance from Indonesia. China has stated that the renaming of the northern waters from Natuna Islands by Indonesia as meaningless and is taking its stance in a more diplomatic way taking into consideration the involvement of western players into the region, that being of the United States. Indonesia has been quite on the issue for a long time and has only reacted after recent incursions by Chinese fishing vessels. This has prompted the development of its military forces in the Natuna Islands with more plans forecasted in the immediate future, However, Indonesia is also aware of the fact that the issue is sensitive and could affect the foreign relations with China. In ...

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Economic Zone (EEZ) which is dated back to ancient times and is claimed to be part of China's fishing grounds. This claimed nine-dash-lines runs along the EEZs of Taiwan, Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei and Vietnam and has caused a small rift in the South East Asian Region to date. Since its public vague claim in 1947, China has made no attempts to file an official claim to the area within the dashes to date. Despite a ruling by an arbitral tribunal constituted under Annex VII to the 1982 United Nations Convention on Law of the Sea against China in a case brought by the Philippines, China did not recognize the rule and rejected it. This is a clear indication that China is adamant ...

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