China and Japan in maritime Southeast Asia: Extending their geo-strategic rivalry by competing for friends

• Main Author: De Castro, Renato Cruz
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2013
• Subjects: China > Foreign relations > Southeast Asia; Southeast Asia > Foreign relations > China; China > Foreign relations > Japan; Japan > Foreign relations > China; South China Sea > Boundaries; International Relations
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/1954
• Institution: De La Salle University

This article examines the expansion of the geo-strategic rivalry between China and Japan into maritime Southeast Asia. This rivalry is reflected concretely in their policies, in their positions, and actions on the South China Sea dispute. Likewise, the article analyzes this rivalry on maritime security in Southeast Asia and then concludes that this increasing hostility not only strains the relations between these two East Asian powers but might also threaten the survival of ASEAN as a loose association of small Southeast Asian powers. © 2013 Philippine Political Science Association (PPSA).