The South China Sea Dispute Policy And The South China Sea

Since 2009, the situation in South China Sea tends to be escalating tension. Facing the unsettled dispute, some student claimed to solve it by military. But, using military cannot be the best solution, which would harm our good neighboring strategy and damage the stable circumstance that is needed by our economic and social development. Using military to solve the dispute also goes against peaceful development strategy of China, and cannot make the international society to believe the idea of"harmonious world"proposed by China. In a word, the dispute has a great impact. Therefore, we need to study the dispute in details as well as looking at the larger picture. In order to do this, this paper will discuss it in the following parts.Chapter one will study the origin of South China Sea dispute from the dimension of regional order. The dispute does not come to being from old. Then what made it come to being? This chapter tries to answer the question from the dimension of regional order changing. Basing on some international theories, the chapter studies the process of how the dispute comes to being and concludes that the changing regional order makes a difference on the dispute.Chapter two will discuss the dispute from the dimension of geopolitics. The dispute involves islands belonging and sea area delimitation. But it is the strategic resources and strategic values contained in the sea that strikes neighboring countries'nerves. This chapter focuses on the mechanism between those strategic resources and the breakout of dispute, that is,"resources"rouses"concerns"and"concerns"brings about"dispute". And between those two"concerns", there are some exaggerated factors.Chapter three will discuss the dispute from another dimension which is the international legal system. Generally speaking, international legal system is made to prevent or settle international disputes. But the arising of the dispute of South China Sea was coincident with the introduction of international sea law. It is hard for international legal system to settle the South China Sea dispute. Sometimes, the legal system even would exacerbate the situation.Chapter four will analyze some changes or potential changes in these three dimensions in South China Sea. These changes will influence the development of the dispute. Pursuing a peaceful and stable regional order, weakening the considerations on geopolitics and perfecting the international legal system will be helpful to the settlement of South China Sea dispute. Otherwise, the dispute will become more and more intense, and may bring out a war in the end.Chapter five will analyze the feasibilities of some strategies in settling South China Sea dispute, such as militarily, politically, economically and legally. Then basing on the discussions of the paper, this article proposes its own strategy, which is, taking a strategic view to construct regional order, integrated application of political, economic, martial and cultural measures, settling the dispute in the process of China's peaceful development and settling the dispute to realize China's peaceful development.