(Download) "Maritime Claims and Energy Cooperation in the South China Sea." by Contemporary Southeast Asia * eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Maritime Claims and Energy Cooperation in the South China Sea.
- Author : Contemporary Southeast Asia
- Release Date : January 01, 2007
- Genre: Politics & Current Events,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 318 KB
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The South China Sea is an area comprising over 200 islands, rocks, and reefs and includes the Paracels and Spratly groups. The unresolved maritime claims of China, Taiwan, Brunei, Malaysia, Vietnam, and the Philippines overlap; China and Vietnam have claimed the entire area; and the others have claimed contiguous zones. Uncertainty in relation to sovereign jurisdiction has hindered the exploitation of the hydrocarbon and fishing resources there. Attempts to settle the claims have stumbled over the complexity of the issue and sanguine expectations that reason and the logic of compromise would prevail have proven to be unfounded. One important reason for the as yet unresolved status of the area has been the refusal of the main claimant, China, and also Vietnam, to depart from their formal claim to the entire area. Proposals that have called for multilateral negotiations with the intention of accommodating China have floundered accordingly. If the South China Sea were just an outlying area where the competing claims could be shelved without detriment, it would not merit much attention. The search for new sources of energy reserves however, has added a new urgency to the issue, particularly as China struggles to meet exploding demands for energy. The claimants are now interested in exploiting the energy reserves of their respective claims, the ASEAN states in particular. Can there be security in the South China Sea which would allow the claimants to tap those resources without a resolution of the maritime claims? The Maritime Claims