Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Dual civil-
military
Red Line?
2. South China Sea
in International Politics
New Model/Type of Major Country/Power
Relations
2013 Sunnylands Summit
2014 irreconcilable differences emerge
G2 power sharing
Pressure to support NTGPR
Expanding core Interests
Cyber espionage
Artificial islands
Obama Administrations Rebalancing towards the
Asia-Pacific (January 2012)
Chinese Militarization
Fishing fleet, maritime militia and Coast Guard
Master Plan to construct forward operating
bases
Airfields constructed on Fiery Cross, Subi and
Mischief Reefs
Xi Jinping: China does not intend to pursue
militarization (White House Rose Garden, 25/915)
Military Exercises
Combat Air Patrols
Further Militarization
of Artificial Islands
Reinforced
hangars next
to airfields
Close in
Weapons
Support
Anti-Aircraft
Guns
United States Militarization
Constant U.S. naval and air presence since end of
Second World War
1951 Mutual Defense Treaty with the Philippines
Rebalancing
Maritime security assistance, naval patrols, port visits by
nuclear subs, rotational military presence, LCS in
Singapore, maritime air patrols
Freedom of Navigation Operational Patrols (FONOPs)
Close-in aerial surveillance/military activities in EEZ and
military alert zone
Provocative and Decisive Action
Scarborough Shoal Case Study
March/April 2016
Scarborough Shoal
April 19-21, 2016