Joint Development in the South China Sea: A New Approach

AbstractThe political situation in the South China Sea is complicated, as it contains potential for conflict with different national interests, in particular around the Spratly Islands which are currently under multiple territorial and maritime claims. This article argues for a new proposal of joint development, at least as a provisional means, pending the settlement of the territorial and maritime disputes, involving all the parties concerned, based on the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea and the 2002 Declaration on the Conduct of the Parties in the South China Sea Between the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and China, so as to pave the way for the sharing of resources between ASEAN members and China on the one hand and to maintain regional peace and security in East Asia on the other.

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Defining eez Claims from Islands: A Potential South China Sea Change

The International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law ◽

10.1163/15718085-12341321 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 29 (2) ◽

pp. 193-243 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Robert C. Beckman ◽

Clive H. Schofield

Keyword(s):

South China Sea ◽

South China ◽

The South China Sea ◽

The South ◽

Joint Development ◽

China Sea ◽

Maritime Boundary ◽

The Face ◽

Maritime Disputes ◽

United Nations Convention

In the face of seemingly intractable territorial and maritime disputes in the South China Sea, the article examines how the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (losc), sets out what maritime claims States can make in the South China Sea and how it establishes a framework that will enable States to either negotiate maritime boundary agreements or negotiate joint development arrangements (jdas) in areas of overlapping maritime claims. It provides an avenue whereby the maritime claims of the claimants can be brought into line with international law, potentially allowing for meaningful discussions on cooperation and maritime joint development based on areas of overlapping maritime claims defined on the basis of the losc.

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Asia’s Mediterranean

The US vs China ◽

10.7228/manchester/9781526121998.003.0009 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Jude Woodward

Keyword(s):

South China Sea ◽

South China ◽

Critical Role ◽

The South China Sea ◽

The South ◽

American Power ◽

China Sea ◽

The Us ◽

Dramatic Shift ◽

The One

This chapter (and the next) look at the US’s recent intervention in the South China Sea and China’s responses. It considers the varying domestic and strategic concerns of these primarily island countries. It analyses the drivers of their responses to the sovereignty disputes in the Sea and to the key US initiative of the TPP. This chapter and the next are linked to the one that follows on Vietnam, which also plays a critical role in the shifting relation of forces in the South China Sea disputes. This is the region where the US has invested most hopes in a dramatic shift in regional alignments against China. These chapters assess the US’s progress, and conclude that – despite its lack of a local ally with anything like the weight of Japan or South Korea and the immense geographic extension of American power involved in maintaining its presence in the region – in some respects the US ’rebalance’ strategies have made more progress here to China’s south than to its east.

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