[wanabidii] New SIPRI publications on promoting crisis management in the East China Sea

Monday, February 23, 2015

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Promoting crisis management in the East China Sea 

SIPRI is pleased to announce the publication of four Policy Briefs on promoting crisis management in the East China Sea.

Two intertwined territorial disputes in the East China Sea are currently unresolved between China and Japan. The first dispute concerns sovereignty issues regarding the Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands. The islands are administered by Japan but claimed by China. Japan does not recognize the existence of a territorial dispute. The second dispute concerns maritime delimitation in the East China Sea. The 200-nautical-mile exclusive economic zones (EEZ), which are calculated from the baselines of the coasts of the two countries, overlap over a vast stretch of sea. China claims the extension of its EEZ along its continental shelf all the way to the coast of Japan. Japan defends a resolution under the principle of equity and a maritime boundary along a median line.

The Policy Briefs in this series shed light on four different aspects of crisis management in the East China Sea, focusing on how to avoid collisions at sea or in the air and how to prevent escalation when incidents do occur. They document the two-year period between the end of 2012 and the beginning of 2015, which was characterized by high tension between China and Japan in relation to the East China Sea. During this time, the two countries finally agreed to resume their negotiations on a maritime crisis management mechanism, but whether they can reach a robust and sustainable agreement remains an open question.

The papers conclude a two-year project supported by the MacArthur Foundation that enabled SIPRI to host high-level maritime security dialogues in Stockholm with significant Chinese and Japanese participation. For this project, SIPRI also received support from the Japan Institute of International Affairs and China’s National Defence University. We express our gratitude for this support. As with all SIPRI publications, the views expressed in the four Policy Briefs are those of the authors.

Download the Policy Briefs

The Introduction to the series provides background information for understanding aspects of addressing maritime security in the East China Sea from the perspective of crisis management.


Oliver Bräuner, Joanne Chan and Fleur Huijskens
‘Confrontation and cooperation in the East China Sea: Chinese perspectives’

SIPRI Policy Brief, Feb. 2015

 

Tetsuo Kotani
‘Crisis management in the East China Sea’
SIPRI Policy Brief, Feb. 2015
 
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