China Sea in Conflict
The tension is more alive than ever in the South China Sea between the two world powers. These tensions are due to maritime disputes in the China Sea that oppose China to its Southeast Asian neighbors and that poison the entire region including the Philippines who took the Permanent International Court of Arbitration in The Hague.
In this context, Beijing and Washington have accused each Sunday in "provocations" in these territorial disputes in the South China Sea, where the Chinese government conducts important backfilling operations.
Beijing claims in fact almost all of the South China Sea. She has undertaken infrastructure work and remblaiements on islands whose ownership is disputed, angering riparian States: Vietnam, the Philippines, Brunei and Malaysia. But China also faces the United States, for which Asia Pacific is a diplomatic priority and defending freedom of navigation in these strategic waters for world trade and repeated that freedom of navigation should prevail in these strategic waters, home of freight transport and hydrocarbons.
Washington believes that the sovereignty disputes must be resolved through diplomacy, not by the policy of China. The US has even sent in recent months warships to nearby islands controlled by Beijing. To be continued ... carefully.