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Maritime Moves: The American Response To The South China Sea Conflict, Joshua Jachlewski
Maritime Moves: The American Response To The South China Sea Conflict, Joshua Jachlewski
Senior Honors Theses
China is quickly becoming a world power and will soon reach parity with the United States. China has gotten far more aggressive in its expansion, which extends to the islands within the South China Sea. China claims most of this based on the Nine-Dash Line, in violation of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. As the current world superpower, the United States must respond to these claims given the geostrategic importance of the region. An analysis of the current Chinese and US positions, as well as those of the other littoral states with competing claims, allows …