China Strategy In The South China Sea

China has sought out to increase it geopolitics, by asserting its country historical claims using maritime order to have control of South China Sea, by attempting to take full authoritative control of Paracel Islands and Spratly Islands. In addition, China attempt in trying to be the sole power of the South China Sea has created tension with its neighboring countries. As China continues on with historical claims, conflict will be inevitable, hence making the four other surrounding East Asian countries to stop china from taking control of the South China Sea. The reason why China has so impatiently try to claim rights in regards to the island, is due to all the resources that around there, thus making it a profitable area. Taylor Fravel, wrote an article titled China Strategy in the South China Sea, in this article the issue with China and South China Sea is examine, presenting how China has claimed maritime rights over the Paracel and Spratly Islands in 1958.
The issue with the South China Sea has always been present within the Southeast Asian countries, ever since world War ll, however conflict has been escalating. According to Leszek Buszynski, and his article The …show more content…
Also, Vietnam is a major oil producer producing about 24.4 tons of oil per year, however, production in its established fields is beginning to decline. Vietnam is exploiting new fields to compensate for its decline in oil production. With this being said, conflict will rise between Vietnam and China, due to two countries attempting to sustain their country 's growing economy. According to Busynski, “On May 26, 2011, for example two Chinese maritime vessels cut off the exploration cables of a Vietnamese oil survey ship searching for oil and gas deposits in Vietnam EZZ” the conflict with vietnam and China is not going to be settled that easily, especially when China maritime navy is enforcing their