South China Sea Dispute Settlement Mode Analysis

The South China Sea is in the transportation hub between the Pacific Ocean and Indian Ocean .It is very important in the geo-strategic position.With potential petro- leum discovered in the South China Sea in 1970`s, China andVietnam, PhiliPPines, Malaysia, Indonesia have had a dispute on the demarcation of the emergence of the South China Sea islands and its Spratly Islands'sovereignty and the tetritorial sea.The South China Sea, a long unresolved not only make the neighboring countries joint action to balance China, but also intervene from great powers outside the region.The United States and South Korea, Japan together toward the South China Sea will complete encircle China.It makes more diffcult to solve the South China Sea issue and Taiwan issue.It will cause a serious threat to Chinese national security It even lead to regional insecurity and instability.The South China Sea dispute not resolved in the long-term lead to piracy become rampant in the South China Sea and the serious problems of marine environmental management. It is rather difficult.to solve the South China Sea issue.The current disputes over sovereignty situation in the South China Sea can not be completely resolved in a short period. Therefore, we will focus on how to build models to solve the South China Sea issues.China is holding the attitude of peaceful settlement of disputes to address these disputes, that "putting aside disputes and seeking common development"and seek solutions to solve the problem. Undeniably, "putting aside disputes and seeking common development"makes the South China Sea resources become these nationals` consensus.However, the existing joint development of the South China Sea dispute modes over the countries require certain country sovereignty`compromises and concessions.How to develop, how to make national compromises and agree to jointly develop the model is a serious problem.Many international law experts and government officials have proposed various models for the decision-makers.The author analyze the causes of the South China Sea dispute, current situation and its resulting impact and introduce a lot of the South China Sea dispute settlement modes.Valencia suggested a specific model"Spratly Development Authority"that could be used in the South China Sea to establish a multilateral joint development arrangement.The article compares Valencia`s"Spratly Development Authority"model with Deng Xiaoping`s"Lay aside the Disputes,Co-exploiting"Theory and concludes that they are similar to some extend. Analyzing its significance and role, there are some deep reference values. On the basis,the author analyze of constructing dilemmas on settlement modes by applying the international mechanisms.Therefore, the fact that China and Vietnam successfully signed two agreements"Tonkin Gulf tetritorial sea exclusive economic zone and continental shelf delimitation agreement"and"Tonkin fishery cooperation agreement"illustrates it is prospect and practical to use international mechanisms for the joint development in the South China Sea dispute.These models have merits to some extent. The "joint development" cooperation mechanism have broad prospects.Finally, the article attempt to reflect on the dispute settlement modes from the political means,the economic means and judicial means.