The deployment of Haijing 3901, one of the world’s largest coastguard vessels, showed Beijing’s willingness to use maritime law enforcement ships to impose its claims. Photo: Handout The deployment of Haijing 3901, one of the world’s largest coastguard vessels, showed Beijing’s willingness to use maritime law enforcement ships to impose its claims. Photo: Handout
The deployment of Haijing 3901, one of the world’s largest coastguard vessels, showed Beijing’s willingness to use maritime law enforcement ships to impose its claims. Photo: Handout
Ankit Panda
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Ankit Panda

China’s disregard for Vietnamese sovereignty leaves region worse off

  • Beijing’s actions in the South China Sea suggest that ‘might makes right’ and will keep tensions high
  • To have any chance of agreeing how to share resources in the disputed sea, all claimants need to refrain from pushing dubious entitlements

Ankit Panda
Ankit Panda

Updated: 10:08pm, 26 Jul, 2019

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The deployment of Haijing 3901, one of the world’s largest coastguard vessels, showed Beijing’s willingness to use maritime law enforcement ships to impose its claims. Photo: Handout The deployment of Haijing 3901, one of the world’s largest coastguard vessels, showed Beijing’s willingness to use maritime law enforcement ships to impose its claims. Photo: Handout
The deployment of Haijing 3901, one of the world’s largest coastguard vessels, showed Beijing’s willingness to use maritime law enforcement ships to impose its claims. Photo: Handout
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Ankit Panda

Ankit Panda

Ankit Panda is an Adjunct Senior Fellow in the Defense Posture Project at the Federation of American Scientists, a Senior Editor at The Diplomat, an online magazine on Asia-Pacific affairs, and a Contributing Editor at War on the Rocks. Panda is an award-winning writer and a frequently cited analyst on geopolitical and security issues in the Asia-Pacific. His writing has appeared in The Diplomat, The Atlantic, The Daily Beast, Politico Magazine, and War on the Rocks, among other publications.