A Balanced Threat Assessment of China’s South China Sea Policy
U.S. lawmakers and analysts see China’s efforts to control much of the South China Sea as a serious threat, endangering regional security, freedom of navigation, and the liberal world order. A new paper from Benjamin Herscovitch finds that political leaders and experts exaggerate the dangers of China’s South China Sea policy. “Although China’s South China Sea policy is inconsistent with some of the norms and institutions of the rules-based liberal world order,” says Herscovitch, “Beijing does not seek to undermine this order as a whole and remains supportive of key elements of the international system.”
- “A Balanced Threat Assessment of China’s South China Sea Policy,” by Benjamin Herscovitch



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