East Sea disputes could lead to Asian war
Published: 03/07/2011 05:00
Risks are growing that incidents at sea involving China could lead to war in Asia, an Australian think tank warned. ![]() The Lowy Institute said in a report that the Chinese military’s risk-taking behavior in the South and East China Seas, along with the country’s resource needs and greater assertiveness, had raised the chances of an armed conflict. “The sea lanes of Indo-Pacific Asia are becoming more crowded, contested and vulnerable to armed strife. Naval and air forces are being strengthened amid shifting balances of economic strategic weight,” report authors Rory Medcalf and Raoul Heinrichs wrote. “China’s frictions with the United States, Japan and India are likely to persist and intensify. As the number and tempo of incidents increases, so does the likelihood that an episode will escalate to armed confrontation, diplomatic crisis or possibly even conflict,” they said. The study on major powers and maritime security in Indo-Pacific Asia was published as China prepares to unveil its first aircraft carrier, perhaps this week, a development that has added to worries in the region about China’s military expansion and reach. “Danger Zone “ Medcalf and Heinrichs said more maritime patrols and intrusive surveillance, nationalism and resources disputes would together make it harder to manage arguments over maritime sovereignty. “All of these factors are making Asia a danger zone for incidents at sea: close-range encounters involving vessels and aircraft from competing powers, typically in sensitive or contested zones,” the authors said. The report detailed tension between Beijing and Tokyo, which stemmed from an April 2010 Chinese naval exercise near the Japanese islands of Okinawa and were exacerbated by Japan’s arrest of a Chinese fisherman whose trawler had rammed a coastguard vessel. Despite initial signs of warmer bilateral ties following the March tsunami and nuclear crisis in Japan, a long-running dispute over a chain of isles which are close to potentially significant oil and gas reserves simmers. They said Beijing has caused concern in Southeast Asia over its “core interest” claim on the South China Sea and in Australia about its possible future security behavior, while the emergence of competition between India and China at sea is “only a matter of time.” New efforts were needed to build regional confidence and to involve China in a continued military dialogue with the United States and Japan, they said. They also said maritime security hotlines were needed between the United States and China, and Japan and China, to allow real-time responses to any incidents. James Grubel (Reuters) |
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