《Approaches to the Resolution of Terrestrial and Maritime Territorial Disputes》.pdfVIP

LiXiangyang ApproachestotheResolutionofTerrestrial andM aritimeTerritorialDisputes LiXiangyang木 ountries which have territorialdisputes with China are growing M-,increasinglyworriedaboutlosingleverageagainsttherisinggiantof theregion．ThemajorpowersareadjustingtheirstrategiesinAsiain response to China’Srise，which is creating an opportunity for small countriesto “fish in thetroubledwater”．Theresolutionofterrestrialand maritimeterritorialissuescannotbeaddressedbystop．gaDmeasures，but mustbeintergatedintoChina’Sevolvingoverallforeignpolicy． China’Sterrestrialandmaritimeterritorialissueshavearoused the widespreadconcernoftheinternationa1community．Themajorpowers’ Asiansrtategieshaveadualgoal：tomaintainacooperativerelationship withChina，butalsotoseek p‘incer’issueswithwhichtocontainChina． Traditionalp‘incer’issues，suchasTaiwan，Tibet，andXinjiang，belongto China’S intemal affairs．and direct extemal intervention iS clearly impossible．Terrestrialandmaritimeterritorialissues．however,apartsof China’Scoreinterestsinvolvingherrelationswithothercountries，readily providesuchsrtategic p‘incers’．Manycounrtiesmayportraythemselves asdisputestakeholdersinseekingto interveneinChina’sterrestrialand maritime territorial claims， using the pretext of maintaining hte intemationalmaritimeorderinordertoconatinChinaandtoexpandtheir influenceintheAsianorder． TheU．S．hasadopted a srt~egy of “returningto theAsia-pacific region”which aimstopreventChinafrom gaininghteleadershipofhte Asianpoliticalandeconomicorder,andtoestablishitsowndominancein Asia．This is a naturalreaction for hte hegemony to its potential LiXiangyangisDeanoftheInstituteofAsia-PacificandGlobalStrategies，Chinese AcademyofSocialSciences． C侬 、厂o1．22 No．5 万方数据 ApproachestotheResolutionofTerrestrialand MaritimeTerritorialDisputes challengers．