Troubled Waters: Land Reclamation and Rising Tensions in the South China Sea
Crescent group of disputed Paracel Islands, 2008. via Wikimedia Commons.
The arena of a number of competing territorial claims – including from China, Malaysia, Brunei, the Philippines, Vietnam, and Taiwan – the South China Sea is at the core of converging regional interests in the Asia-Pacific region. Encompassing an area through which 40 percent of the world’s …