Territorial conflicts in maritime East Asia are growing as disputes over un-delineated maritime borders and features are being resolved through coercion and displays of power rather than cooperation, challenging the region's norm of a liberal maritime order and freedom of access upon which commerce relies. Major maritime states must cooperate to reinforce international maritime rules and norms and preserve open access.

1. The Growing Impact of Territorial Conflicts
in Maritime East Asia
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8. Paracel
Islands
Tonkin
Gulf
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Thailand
Gulf
What should be normative?
Should disputes over
un-delineated, non-sovereign
water space be resolved by
coercion and
displays of power?

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Is it important to keep East Asia a maritime system? Why?
Should we accept the SCS as a Chinese strait?
Will the liberal maritime order survive a continentalist challenge?
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Cooperation among major maritime states is required to
1) Reinforce and defend global maritime rules and norms
2) Preserve freedom of access on which free commerce depends