Southeast Asian nations are increasingly uneasy about their giant neighbour China as Beijing moves beyond island-building and military activities to administrative and law enforcement measures to solidify its claims in the South China Sea. “China appears to have moved beyond the primary focus of building physical capacity and is now on a parallel track of promoting integration and multi-agency coordination and cooperation – something that the various Asean claimants are still weak in,” said Collin Koh, a research fellow at RSIS.