Title China's tailored coercion and its rivals' actions and responses : what the numbers tell us / by Christopher Yung and Patrick McNulty

Published Washington, DC : Center for a New American Security, [2015] ©2015

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Description 1 online resource (17 pages) : color illustrations Series Maritime strategy series Contents Introduction -- General summary of findings -- More paramilitary, less military -- No overt effort at Chinese de-escalation -- Economic carrots and sticks -- Coercion and influence through diplomacy -- Information actions -- Legal actions -- Tactics of Southeast Asian claimants : the numbers -- Southeast Asian claimants' use of military and paramilitary actions -- Southeast Asian claimant economic actions -- Southeast Asian claimants and diplomacy -- Southeast Asian claimants and legal actions -- Potential strategies and objectives of the claimant states -- Conclusion Summary "The fifth paper in the Maritime Strategy Series, by Dr. Christopher Yung and Patrick McNulty, is a groundbreaking data-driven look at how the six claimants of features in the South China Sea have advanced and defended their claims from 1995 to 2014. During several years of research conducted at the National Defense University, the authors constructed a custom-built database of open-source reporting on actions taken in the South China Sea by each claimant, classified them into a detailed typology of different tactics, and drew conclusions from the resulting data. Broadly speaking, the research concludes that China has been the most active player, leading the field in use of all tactics save legal measures, and especially so in military and paramilitary actions. But activities by other claimants including the Philippines and Taiwan are also of note, providing a richer picture of the disputes. These data provide one of the only public sources for numerical comparison of various claimants' actions, and Yung and McNulty's analysis thus provides a crucial basis for further study of this fraught maritime zone"--Publisher's web site Notes "January 2015." Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 16-17) Notes Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (CNAS, viewed January 29, 2015) Subject Territorial waters -- South China Sea Diplomatic relations. International law. Military policy. Strategic aspects of individual places. Territorial waters. SUBJECT South China Sea -- International status South China Sea -- Strategic aspects China -- Military policy -- 21st century China -- Foreign relations -- 21st century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007002707 Southeast Asia -- Military policy -- 21st century Southeast Asia -- Foreign relations -- 21st century Subject China. South China Sea. Southeast Asia. Form Electronic book Author McNulty, Patrick, author Center for a New American Security, publisher.

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