scholarly journals China’s Assertiveness in the South and East China Sea: A Constructivist Approach

2021 ◽  
Vol 67 (244) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Llanos Antczak ◽  
Pathummaly Phommachanh
Keyword(s):  
East China Sea ◽  
East China ◽  
Territorial Disputes ◽  
Constructivist Approach ◽  
The East China Sea ◽  
The South ◽  
China Sea ◽  
Economic Liberalism ◽  
The Past ◽  
Identity Perception

<p><strong>La asertividad de China en los Mares del Sur y del Este de China: acercamiento constructivista</strong></p><p><strong>Abstract</strong></p><p>This article aims to discuss the issue of China’s assertiveness in the South and East China Seas within the constrictivist framework, as economic (liberalism) and military power (realism) are not sufficient to explain the complexity of the problem.<strong> </strong>It aims to answer the following question: How does the constructivist approach lend itself to the understanding of China’s assertiveness in the case of the South and the East China Sea territorial disputes? It will also explore the following hypotheses: the victimized identity perception leads China to be assertive in the South China Sea dispute and the perception of Japan’s behavior as aggressive (as in the past) provokes China to be assertive in the East China Sea dispute.</p><p><strong>Resumen</strong></p><p><strong></strong>El presente artículo tiene como objetivo discutir la cuestión de la asertividad de China en Los Mares del Sur y del Este de China dentro del marco constrictivista, ya que el poder económico (liberalismo) y el poder militar (realismo) no son suficientes para explicar la complejidad del problema. Tiene como objetivo responder a la siguiente pregunta: ¿Cómo se presta el enfoque constructivista a la comprensión de la asertividad de China en el caso de las disputas territoriales del Mar del Este y del Sur de China? También explorará las siguientes hipótesis: la percepción de la identidad victimizada lleva a China a ser asertiva en la disputa del Mar del Sur de China y la percepción de agresividad en el comportamiento de Japón (como en el pasado) provoca que China sea asertiva en la disputa del Mar del Este de China.</p><p> </p>

scholarly journals Maritime Territorial Disputes in East Asia: A Comparative Analysis of the South China Sea and the East China Sea

2011 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 165-193 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andy Yee
Keyword(s):  
South China Sea ◽  
East China Sea ◽  
South China ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
The South China Sea ◽  
East China ◽  
Territorial Disputes ◽  
The East China Sea ◽  
The South ◽  
China Sea

This article systematically compares maritime territorial disputes in the East and South China Seas. It draws on the bargaining model of war and hegemonic stability theory to track the record of conflicts and shifts in the relative power balances of the claimants, leading to the conclusion that certainty and stability have improved in the South China Sea, with the converse happening in the East China Sea. To enrich the models, this article also considers social factors (constructivism) and arrives at the same conclusion. This calls for a differentiated methodological approach if we are to devise strategies to mediate and resolve these disputes.

scholarly journals From Panda to Dragon: An Analysis of China’s Maritime Actions and Reactions in the East China Sea and Their Implications since 2012

2021 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 147-171
Author(s):  
Alana Camoça Gonçalves de Oliveira
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
East China Sea ◽  
21St Century ◽  
International System ◽  
Balance Of Power ◽  
Chinese Foreign Policy ◽  
East China ◽  
Territorial Disputes ◽  
The East China Sea ◽  
China Sea

Abstract In the 21st century, China’s rise has been shifting global and regional geopolitical scenarios. Faced with its growth and fears of being perceived as a threat, China sought to associate its economic and political emergence with the preservation of the current international system, emphasizing speeches about a peaceful development and harmonious world in which it would be an actor who wants to grow and accommodate the world order. However, changes in the balance of power and its continued rise have caused China’s behaviour to change in its own region, especially regarding maritime disputes and affecting other countries’ perceptions. By applying Neoclassical Realism, this paper analyses the Chinese foreign policy in the 21st century, elucidating its behaviour in terms of the country’s action and reactions regarding the dispute over the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands and shows the perceptions of other countries to that behaviour. The article concludes that perceptions concerning the balance of power, Chinese capabilities, nationalism, regime legitimacy, and on leadership images affect the intensity of Beijing’s responses and foreign policy about maritime territorial disputes. Also, the article shows that China’s growing assertiveness in both the East China Sea and the South China Sea is pushing countries that have territorial disputes with China to grow closer.

Event deposits of intense typhoons in the muddy wedge of the East China Sea over the past 150 years

2019 ◽  
Vol 410 ◽  
pp. 109-121 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuan Tian ◽  
Dejiang Fan ◽  
Xilin Zhang ◽  
Bin Chen ◽  
Liang Wang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
East China Sea ◽  
East China ◽  
The East China Sea ◽  
China Sea ◽  
The Past

scholarly journals A 5000-Year Sedimentary Record of East Asian Winter Monsoon from the Northern Muddy Area of the East China Sea

Atmosphere ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (12) ◽  
pp. 1376
Author(s):  
Yanping Chen ◽  
Yan Li ◽  
Wenzhe Lyu ◽  
Dong Xu ◽  
Xibin Han ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
East China Sea ◽  
Summer Monsoon ◽  
Winter Monsoon ◽  
East China ◽  
Coarse Particles ◽  
The East China Sea ◽  
China Sea ◽  
The Past ◽  
Sedimentary Dynamics ◽  
Muddy Area

The variability of the winter monsoon is one of the key components of the Asian monsoon, significantly influencing paleoenvironmental evolution in East Asia. However, whether the winter or the summer monsoon is the dominated factor controlling sedimentary dynamics of the muddy areas of the continental shelves of the East China Sea is debated, due to lack of consistency between various winter monsoon proxies in previous studies. In this work, the sediments of the upper part of core ECS-DZ1 with several marine surface samples were studied in terms of sediment grain size and radiocarbon dating, and changes in sedimentary dynamics of the northern muddy area of the ECS over the past 5000 years were documented. The main findings are as follows: (1) regional sedimentary dynamics were low and did not significantly change since the middle Holocene; (2) coarse particles are the dominated component in the sediments; (3) a proxy can be derived to indicate changes in winter monsoon. Based on this reconstructed winter monsoon record, we found that this record was generally negatively correlated to the stalagmite-based summer monsoon variability over the past 3500 years, but positively correlated before that. Moreover, this record can be well correlated to changes in the Kuroshio Current and the Bond ice-rafting debris events in the North Atlantic on millennial timescales, inferring large-scale and common atmospheric dynamics across the Asian continent over the past 5000 years. Therefore, we concluded that the winter monsoon is the predominant factor controlling sedimentary dynamics in the northern part of the ECS and proposed that the contribution of coarse particles may be one of potential indices to identify the role of the winter and the summer monsoons in sedimentary evolution.

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