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Should The United States Provolve In The South China Sea?
Abstract The South China Sea plays a significant role in the geopolitics and economics of the Indo-Pacific. It is one of the busiest commercial route with many of the busiest shipping ports. It is also understood being rich of oil and natural gas. Brunei, China, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan and Vietnam, all have been competing for claims over the China Sea territory. The United States—a non-neighbored country— also has gotten involved with an excuse to maintain free movement and rule by international law. This paper examines why would the United States has willingness to get involve in the South China Sea dispute. Examination has been done through the security dilemma model including the balance of power theory.

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The United States Navy has operated both aircraft and naval vessels proclaiming the freedom of navigation in the South China Sea. It is clearly seen by the US combat ship and flight over the Chinese construction at Fiery Reef. Along with the freedom of navigation, the United States emphasizes on strengthening it allies. The United States has a treaty obligation to the Philippines. Being the world’s largest economy, the United States has real interests in maintaining open sea lanes, and being the world’s biggest naval power makes it assumes the role of policing them. Moreover, being the hegemon, it frequently acts as a …show more content…
Being able to control the South China Sea allows China to dominate the commerce including trade routes. It also allows China to disorder trade shipments to all of the East and Southeast Asia nations. Moreover, ability to regulate the route also allows China to deny the access of foreign military forces, especially the counter United States. South China Sea does not provide only political capabilities, but also the resources capabilities which contributed to the economy. At the seabed of the South China contain of massive oil and natural gas (See Figure 1). Territorial control and the sovereignty over the region could provide China an energy security and get farther more independence than it currently
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