China: Fishing to expand maritime territories?

• Main Author: Pitlo, Lucio Blanco, III
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2013
• Subjects: Maritime boundaries—China; Territorial waters—China; South China Sea—Boundaries; International Relations; Political Science
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/12811
• Institution: De La Salle University

Increasing Chinese maritime law enforcement capabilities in the South China Sea (SCS) ostensibly to protect the interests of its fishermen, may only exacerbate tensions in one of the world's closely monitored regional flashpoints. This is especially so in the context of increasing commercial fi...