Brinkmanship in S China Sea no help to anyone

TODAY

10 June 2016

Sam Bateman

Sam Bateman, an adviser to the Maritime Security Programme at the RSIS, NTU, wrote in his commentary there has been a continuing increase in military activities in the South China Sea in recent months, particularly by the United States and China, but also by “bit players” such as India and Japan. These activities only heighten tensions in the region when the priority should be to demilitarise the area. The sad reality is that all this brinkmanship is adding to the strategic distrust that pervades the region at present. These prominent players in the South China Sea should all back off from their current military activities, lest the region continue down a track that could lead to more serious incidents and even conflict.

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