Students’ view on How Should South ways, the first one is apply the United and seas of our

and seas of our planet in the future. It

China Sea dispute be resolved?
Even we prefer United States intervene
as a mediator in this issue but China’s
foreign ministry said before that it would
“never allow any country to violate” its
interests in the South China Sea. Beijing
said it had warned the US warship to
leave the area and accused Washington
of launching “provocative actions” in the
region. They do not want United State to
intervene in South China Sea dispute.
Besides, China do not want to bring this
issue to the International Court of Justice
(ICJ). Besides, to bring an issue to ICJ, it
needed both parties agree about it.
Therefore, in my opinion, South China
Sea dispute can be resolved through 2
Nations Convention on the law of the Sea will be the beginning of the end of
(UNCLOS) to the South China Sea UNCLOS. The rule of the naval cannon
dispute, the second is through diplomacy (the ship which has automatic large
– multilateral negotiation even China heavy gun) will become prevail (very
only prefer bilateral negotiation with common) in the oceans and seas of our
each of the claimant states. planet, no longer the rule of law that big
power country will follow. Then on that
time, there will be a naval arms race
Firstly, I will explain Why is it important among coastal countries.
to apply UNCLOS to this issue. If
UNCLOS does not apply to the South
China Sea dispute, as when China’s nine-
dashed lines are allowed to gobble up or
take control the Exclusive Economic
Zone which means a state has the special
rights over the exploration of the sea
zone and use of marine resources on the
coastal states as well as the high seas.
Then UNCLOS, the constitution for the
Second, just like I mention before, even
oceans and seas, cannot also apply to any
China only prefer bilateral negotiation
maritime dispute in the rest of the oceans
with each of the claimant states, we
cannot go for bilateral negotiation. This is
because we just a small and weaker
country from economy and military
aspect if compare with the Big Power,
China. In this kind of situation, only by
bilateral negotiation we sure will never
get into the advantageous position.
Anyway, a state's decision in bilateral or
multilateral relations does not
necessarily result in a win or lose option
between the states involved, but can
result in a win-win solution.
In my opinion, South China Sea dispute
can be resolve through multilateral
negotiation that which carry out within
Association of Southeast Asian Nations
(ASEAN). ASEAN propose the
establishment of an ASEAN-China which
we also can call it as Sino-ASEAN forum
to serve as a platform for continuous
discussions and negotiations since four economic relations would not only be
ASEAN states are involved, it makes based on mercantilism due to regulation
sense for the regional entity to approach of a nation's economy to enhance state
the various disputes over sovereignty vis- power at the expense of rival national
à-vis China on a collective basic. The powers. This can lead to cooperation and
claimant states may joint hand and gain joint development between the claimant
the mutual benefit. states and China.
For example, formulating additional That’s all from me, thank you.
disarmament pacts in the SCS and
Now I pass to the next presenter.
facilitating more military communication
between states are two options for
providing greater stability. In addition,
applying regional economic integration
can also strengthen ties between the
claimant states by managing resource
competition among states and providing
mutual economic growth; one feature is
by reassigning industry or product
specializations to each participating
state. This shared benefit would then
reduce the odds of conflict because