Challenges in the South China Sea

The South China Sea is one of the key flashpoints in the Indo-Pacific region where significant geopolitical and geoeconomic interests of regional countries overlap. The Centre for Geopolitics has been following the developments of the South China Sea dispute and has hosted a number of events on this topic to inform the latest development of the situation in this vital region. Continuing these efforts, the Centre invites Dr Ralf Emmers and Dr Laura Southgate to discuss more recent developments in this contested region and how other stakeholders are responding to the challenges on the South China Sea posed by the rise of China and its unilateral claims over the body of water.

[@hangtuah888]

When you use terms like Indo Pacific you used the master's term, it is the correct namenclature to call it Asia Pacific.

[@jhunnjr.6423]

More specifically Asia Pacific Sea, not South China Sea.

[@hangtuah888]

@@jhunnjr.6423 The correct nomenclature is South China Sea and it is always will be. Only the stupid will consider it otherwise.

[@hangtuah888]

@@jhunnjr.6423 Only the stupid and ignorance called it Asia Pacific sea, it is South China Sea since time immemorial.

[@jhunnjr.6423]

@@hangtuah888 that was only made by china only... But the international law is made by morethan 2 country. 2 is better than 1.

[@hangtuah888]

@@jhunnjr.6423 Yes two idiots Like you are better than one.

[@julioduan7130]

After finishing the whole video, my conclusion is that all the three are very informed and balanced, better than those think tanks invited in the US forum or speeches.🎉🎉🎉

[@barryshaw5660]

Very amusing thank you.

[@phallyun5751]

Interesting

[@hangtuah888]

You are so far from South China Sea to cause troubles in the SCS.

[@jhunnjr.6423]

Asean countries can't solve the the problem

[@hangtuah888]

@@jhunnjr.6423 You are stuttering.

[@ramongabutina8015]

Peace was enjoyed for ages by world ship mariners in this international water until China's unilateral grab ( invalidated by UN Arbitral Court) of almost the entirety of South China Sea + parts of Exclusive Economic Zones ( EEZs) of the Phils, Vietnam, S.Korea,Indonesia,Malaysia & Borneo which countries have sole jurisdiction & domain ( same for all countries) per UN UNCLOS to which ironically China is a signatory. China is persistently focussing on less militarily prepared Phils on their invalidated( 9? 10?) dash line claim, reason why Phil welcomes US,Japan, France, Australia et al countries' actual & expressed support) but China seems not as insistent to better-militarily armed Vietnam,S.Korea & Indonesia which countries firmly time & again warded off even burned Chinese fishing & naval boats' intrusions in their EEZs, also was not as insistent when Indonesia & Malaysia determinedly put up oil platforms in their EEZs disregarding China's protests.

[@adindanatassa]

45 interesting opinion

[@treg9492]

How come the reasons for China's claims have not been properly presented here, but only a distorted western view? Need fair representation, don't you think?

[@rainieresguerra6519]

China's reasons are what? Every single one was debunked in the 2916 Hague Ruling and China refuses to participate in any forum in which its position is challenged because it knows it will be crushed and humiliated.

[@julioduan7130]

They never tell their audiences the whole story to twist their biased perspectives.

[@jhunnjr.6423]

This can't solve by Asia Country only. 😊

[@davidliao1247]

The western state governance philosophy doesn’t apply to other regional states. History os Asian governance hasn’t been about security but commerce.

[@rainieresguerra6519]

All my comments rebutting the comments of Chinese bots here are being deleted. So funny.

[@brianliew5901]

All comments rebutting those Western bots are deleted, that's even funnier. 😂😂😂😂

[@rainieresguerra6519]

@@brianliew5901 Really? Your comment appears and mine doesn't. So, which is really getting deleted? 🤣🤣🤣

[@brianliew5901]

@@rainieresguerra6519 WTF is mine???

[@brianliew5901]

@@rainieresguerra6519 Where's mine, dude??

[@brianliew5901]

@@rainieresguerra6519 YT is now a huge Wumao ; collecting 50 cents for every anti-American comment from Uncle Sam

[@colinchia5318]

Waste your F time 😊

[@brianliew5901]

If there's war invthe SCS, what are Filipinos going to live on?

[@leexingha]

they chose to participate. they should be ready for the consequences

[@brianliew5901]

@@leexingha The Asean region wants no part of this war and the Philippines will get no support from here.

[@rainieresguerra6519]

What will the Chinese going to live on? It has a very huge population. It's dependent on imports for food, oil, gas and coal as well as raw materials. It's an export oriemted economy. If China gets blockaded, China's 1.4B people will descend into starvation. China will be in chaos. China's scare tactics are so funny. The Philippines has lots of friends and allies. China has nobody to depend on in case of war. China is a bully and a thief. And it is so alone in its maritime dispute with the Philippines.

[@INDIGOBLUE555]

Aren't Philippines in the american sphere of influence ? I guess so then looking at this archipelago as a *strategic stronghold*....let alone politics or popular narratives. So will Philippines just watch events from a neutral vantage point whenever the SCS got into a conflictual scenario ?

[@sudoren7572]

@@brianliew5901 We finally kicked out the US military from the PH in the 90s, and enjoyed two decades of peace and good relations with China afterwards until in the 2010s when China suddenly seized and militarized several locations in the area, including a shoal within missile striking range of Manila that was previously not even claimed by China, and we had 6 years of a president who did everything to appease China, and to alienate the West. What did we get? Less than 1% of pledged economic investments, more seized areas, a blockaded outpost, and fishermen driven out of their traditional fishing areas. China started this even though we never asked for this conflict, and we do not want war. You meanwhile sound like the 21st century version of Imperial Japan justifying their invasion of China by believing their false-flag Mukden Incident story.

[@michael511128]

Anyone flew LA to Shanghai knows it takes 14.5 hours. South China Sea is some 8000 miles from the US. Why is it a “regional” issue unless the US really thinks it still or ever did owns the world. The rest of the world think it is your imagination. Get real, wake up, your dream is forgotten. If you haven’t, fly to China to take a look and see who is more advanced and happier. When you have learned more, you will feel sorry that you were born in the US, like me.

[@rainieresguerra6519]

Every one in every corner of the globe has the obligation and the right to help others fight of thieves. China's fishing vessels are indiscriminately fishing all over the world. So, shouldn't those vessels go back to Chinese waters and stay there? China has military presence in Africa and its navy sails in the Baltics, Midditeranean seas and the arctic. Countries are interconnected now. China's, greed, thuggery and thievery must be collectively addressed by all countries. Chinese bots really think that there's one rule that apply to the world and there's another for China.

[@kaagapay_nyo]

Think also China is 800 miles in Philippine EEZ but they encroach illegally by force. Philippines only 200nm. And unclos rulling is legally binding in international laws... china has none except only might. It mqins China only a Squatter in philippine eez water.

[@rainieresguerra6519]

Chinese naval ships are sailing the Red Sea, Baltic, Arctic, Mediterranean and other seas. Chinese fishing boats are depleting fishing stocks everywhere. Chinese troops are in Africa and meddling in the Israeli-Hamas war. The parts of the SCS that belong to the Philippines are over a thousand kilometers from China's shorelines. Why are Chinese vessels intruding in waters that is more than 1k away from Chinese shorelines?

[@sudoren7572]

The SCS involves international waters which are subject to international law (to which CHINA is a willing signatory), and affects international economies (from the Middle East, through India, across Southeast Asia, into East Asia, all the way to Oceania, and North America), with surrounding countries (including the PH) that have international treaties with other nations (the US). That's why. And also, anyone with a map, or a phone doesn't even need to fly to see how ludicrous the 10-dash line is, it cuts far too closely to countries that are far closer to the great majority of the area than China. A 10-dash line mind you created in the 20th century by the Nationalists, later adapted by the Communists who were proven to create fictional accounts to support a totally false historical claim to the area as shown before an international tribunal. Ancient Chinese never even saw, let alone set foot on, or rule these geographical features. International law, which the PRC willingly became a signatory to after overthrowing the Nationalists, does not even recognize historical claims as a basis, and the geographical features are not real islands which generate EEZs and naturally support communities (only artificial ones the PRC suddenly seized and reclaimed and militarized them).

[@rainieresguerra6519]

@@sudoren7572 True. We are now living in a world that is increasingly getting more inter connected. Everyone must observe established and agreed rules to maintain peace.

[@user-os7lh9dx5t]

ASEAN is laughing at Philippines.

[@sudoren7572]

and yet Indonesia, Singapore, Brunei, Vietnam, Thailand, and Malaysia all chose to participate in foreign observation of the Balikatan 2024 military exercises of the PH, US, and France, and now other ASEAN nations are considering following in PH footsteps of filing cases against China in international tribunals

[@timawa22]

Philippines is the only country in ASEAN to stand-up against U.S at president Duterte time and now we fighting china in the name of our rights. I don't think any ASEAN country can do that, they're very afraid of the sunctions😅

[@jhunnjr.6423]

small country vs big country... i think world will laughing on this big country trying to grab the territory of small countries around this big country. 😆😆😆

[@stanleyhuynh1659]

Who care about this conference’s only one sided. Its asean areas and let’s those countries take care of it region. The western world should stay out of its region.

[@deodatobutawan3742]

In the case of the Phils, China must withdraw first their incursions in Phil. territory before they talk bilateral concessions. China must come clean.

[@hangtuah888]

The Phipines must pretend an old ship is an island.

[@davidliao1247]

US is making claim through the weaken leaders of the Phil state.