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LOWY INSTITUTE FOR
INTERNATIONAL POLICY (Australia)
STRATEGIC SNAPSHOTS
Snapshot 11
July 2012
What’s at stake in
the South China Sea?
Michael Wesley
The South China Sea
is enclosed by the west coast of mainland Southeast Asia, Borneo and the Philippine
archipelago. Rich in hydrocarbons and fish stocks, it is traversed by over one-third
of global shipping. Its waters and seabed are subject to six opposing territorial
claims – by China, Taiwan, Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunei and the Philippines – but these
confrontations are generally not regarded as seriously as the Taiwan Straits and
the Korean peninsula standoffs.
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