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The South China Sea

2013
The South China Sea is at the centre of competing territorial, economic, and strategic interests.1 The claimant countries are Brunei, China, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan, and Vietnam. This chapter reviews how economic interests have negatively influenced the peaceful management of the maritime territorial dispute.
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South China Karst

2013
The South China Karst region comprises three clusters: Shilin Karst (in Yunnan Province), Libo Karst (in Guizhou Province), and Wulong Karst (in Chongqing Municipality). The Shilin Karst contains mainly Karst features in the shape of swords, pillars, and towers, while the Libo Karst consists of cone and tower shapes; the Wulong Karst forms are mainly ...
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China, the USA and the South China Sea Conflicts

Security Dialogue, 2003
This article focuses on China's strategy in dealing with the US factor in the South China Sea conflicts. While the USA is not directly involved in the South China Sea quagmire, its concern with the security of the sea-lanes and its insistence that peaceful means must be used to solve the region's problems have cautioned China to tread carefully in its
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China's New Assertiveness in the South China Sea

Journal of Contemporary China, 2013
China's new assertiveness in the South China Sea has arisen from the growth of its military power, its ‘triumphalism’ in the wake of the Western financial crisis and its heightened nationalism. The other littoral states of the South China Sea have been troubled by the opacity of Chinese politics and of the process of military decision-making amid a ...
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China’s Interests in the South China Sea

2018
Whether China is defensive or offensive realist state can be tested from its interests. This chapter discusses China’s interests in five main fields, namely resources, security, geopolitics, Taiwan, and the Party’s legitimacy.
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The South China Sea

2009
1. INTRODUCTION: PINXIAN WANG and QIANYU LI 2. OCEANOGRAPHICAL AND GEOLOGICAL BACKGROUND: PINXIAN WANG and QIANYU LI Bathymetry and geomorphology Oceanography Tectonic history and sedimentary basins 3. STRATIGRAPHY AND SEA LEVEL CHANGES: QIANYU LI, GUANGFA ZHONG and JUN TIAN Lithostratigraphic overview Biostratigraphic framework Isotopic and ...
Qianyu Li, Pinxian Wang
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China’s Claim in the South China Sea

2018
China and Vietnam claim the whole South China Sea (SCS), while the Philippines, Malaysia, and Brunei claim parts of it. China illustrates its SCS claim with the controversial nine-dash line map. This chapter verifies if China’s claim has basis according to the international norm and free from expansionist ambition; otherwise, it cannot be said ...
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Deconstructing South China and consequences for reconstructing Nuna and Rodinia

, 2020
Peter A. Cawood, Wei Wang, Tianyu Zhao, Ya-jun Xu, J. Mulder, S. Pisarevsky, Limin Zhang, Chengshi Gan, Huiying He, Huichuan Liu, Liang Qi, Yuejun Wang, Jinlong Yao, Guochun Zhao, Mei‐Fu Zhou, Jian-Wei Zi   +15 more
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China’s Defection in the South China Sea

2018
This chapter contends that the litmus test of being a genuine defensive realist state is China’s South China Sea (SCS) behaviour, in which China has so much at stake. A defensive realist state sends costly signal bearing the political cost. In the context of the SCS, the costly signals are (1) openness to non-military solutions, (2) self-restraint, and
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Rapid transition from continental breakup to igneous oceanic crust in the South China Sea

Nature Geoscience, 2018
H. Larsen, G. Mohn, M. Nirrengarten, Z. Sun, J. Stock, Z. Jian, A. Klaus, C. Alvarez‐Zarikian, J. Boaga, S. Bowden, A. Briais, Y. Chen, D. Cukur, K. Dadd, W. Ding, M. Dorais, E. Ferré, F. Ferreira, A. Furusawa, A. Gewecke, J. Hinojosa, T. Höfig, K. Hsiung, B. Huang, E. Huang, X. Huang, S. Jiang, H. Jin, B. G. Johnson, R. Kurzawski, C. Lei, B. Li, L. Li, Y. Li, J. Lin, C. Liu, C. Liu, Z. Liu, A. Luna, C. Lupi, A. McCarthy, L. Ningthoujam, N. Osono, D. Peate, P. Persaud, N. Qiu, C. Robinson, S. Satolli, I. Sauermilch, J. Schindlbeck, S. Skinner, S. Straub, X. Su, C. Su, L. Tian, F. M. van der Zwan, S. Wan, H. Wu, R. Xiang, R. Yadav, L. Yi, P. Yu, C. Zhang, J. Zhang, Y. Zhang, N. Zhao, G. Zhong, L. Zhong   +67 more
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