| ID | 172698 |
| Title Proper | East Asian disorder |
| Other Title Information | China and the South China Sea disputes |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Zhao, Suisheng |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | In the South China Sea territorial disputes, China has shifted from a delaying strategy characterized by strategic ambiguity to strategic clarity and an increasingly assertive stance. Yet, this power play, asserting sovereignty over a large portion of the South China Sea, has not prompted a decisive push-back from regional states or major powers, raising the question of what kind of norms China will bring to the regional order and indicating the difficulty of building rules-based order in a region characterized by unbounded power politics in a twenty-first-century Hobbesian struggle. |
| `In' analytical Note | Asian Survey Vol. 60, No.3; May-Jun 2020: p.490–509 |
| Journal Source | Asian Survey Vol: 60 No 3 |
| Key Words | Regional order ; East Asia ; South China Sea ; China ; Coercive Diplomacy ; Strategic Ambiguity ; International Arbitration ; Maritime Territorial Disputes |