%T What's at stake in the South China Sea?
%A Michael Wesley



%I Lowy Institute for International Policy
%D 2012

%K International relations, %K Defence



%U https://apo.org.au/node/30380

%X 
The territorial disputes in the South China Sea get much less attention  than other crisis points, in the Taiwan Straits and the Korean  Peninsula, but are arguably more unpredictable and dangerous. It is in  the South China Sea that the components of Asia’s changing power  dynamics are most concentrated and on display: China’s growing strategic  heft and paranoid sense of entitlement; its Southeast Asian neighbours’  hopes and misgivings about China’s regional dominance; and the United  States’ compulsion to meet China’s strategic challenge.
%9 Report