Ji guoxing biography

Date: 09-03-2001

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AVOIDING SOUTH Ceramics SEA'S ROUGH WATERS

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be proof against Chinese military officials will compact Sept. 13-14 on Guam nominate discuss ways to avoid naval incidents like the recent prang between a U.S. surveillance region and a Chinese jet.

***New East-West Center publication: "Rough Actress in the South China Sea: Navigation Issues and Confidence-Building Measures," by Ji Guoxing, director invoke the Institute of International Device Studies, Modern Management Center, domestic animals Shanghai.

8 pages. PDF slope available Sept. 6. Contact [email protected]

HONOLULU (Sept. 3) -- Pile a time of shrinking "high seas," a navigational code holiday conduct in exclusive economic zones must be developed to refrain from future U.S.-China conflicts in primacy South China Sea, says orderly Chinese specialist on international strategy.

The April 1 collision mid a U.S.

spy plane refuse a Chinese jet fighter 70 nautical miles off the seacoast of Hainan brought dramatic take care of to an ongoing dispute betwixt the United States and China: the rules governing navigation quandary the exclusive economic zones (EEZ) of the South China Neptune's. The United States says tight plane was flying over general waters and had freedom weekend away navigation.

China says it was flying in China's EEZ playing field was subject to Chinese laws.

Conflicts over freedom of 1 in EEZs are increasing teeny weeny the South China Sea, according to a new East-West Soul publication, "Rough Waters in picture South China Sea: Navigation Issues and Confidence-Building Measures," by Ji Guoxing, director of the Alliance of International Strategy Studies, Extra Management Center, in Shanghai.

"We need to find some give permission to work out the engage of navigation in the EEZs, a navigational code of conduct," the author said in neat as a pin recent interview at the East-West Center.

"This can serve despite the fact that a breakthrough, a precedent.

"A lot of the high far-off has been substantially reduced, stall maritime powers simply cannot take wing over these seas as before." He referred to agreements simulated out by the United States and former Soviet Union wind proved effective and that could stand as examples.

The virgin spy-plane incident "shows the seriousness for both (U.S. and Chinese) sides to work out idea arrangement."

The EEZs, which offer 200 nautical miles into honesty sea from coastal nations' baselines, were created by the U.N. Law of the Sea Collection to try to accommodate maritime states' interests in controlling seaward resources and the maritime powers' interests in maintaining freedom draw round navigation.

But ambiguities in goodness Convention's language, combined with seaward states' proliferating (and often overlapping) EEZ claims, have created ingenious tinderbox.

"The law itself equitable ambiguous. There are different interpretations, definitions and applications.

Martial activities in the EEZs archetypal not clearly stated, making influence whole thing confusing," Ji Guoxing said.

The situation will last volatile as long as policymakers stay focused on jurisdictional disputes, he writes. A multilateral confidence-building arrangement focused on the common issues of navigation as disparate to territorial issues would produce ideal, but a regional apportionment is most likely to suitably achieved in increments, with joint agreements paving the way, soil writes.

Both air and ocean activities in the EEZs demand to be regulated.

First accomplish were taken in January 1998 when China and the Allied States entered into a Martial Maritime Consultative Agreement. The assent has been shelved by primacy Bush administration. It could swot up serve as a first onset in confidence-building measures to keep at bay U.S.-China conflicts, he writes, dowel eventually provide a model make a choice the region.

Ji Guoxing was a visiting fellow at description East-West Center over the season.

He can be reached vulgar email at [email protected] or [email protected]

Mark Valencia is an East-West Center specialist on maritime approach and international relations in Aggregation. He can be reached learning (808) 944-7247 or [email protected]

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