{"id":2972,"date":"2016-12-06T09:36:48","date_gmt":"2016-12-05T23:36:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testblogs.griffith.edu.au\/asiainsights\/?p=2972"},"modified":"2023-08-06T16:04:04","modified_gmt":"2023-08-06T06:04:04","slug":"the-south-china-seas-worsening-strategic-dilemmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testblogs.griffith.edu.au\/asiainsights\/the-south-china-seas-worsening-strategic-dilemmas\/","title":{"rendered":"The South China Sea&#8217;s worsening strategic dilemmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/testblogs.griffith.edu.au\/asiainsights\/tag\/peter-layton\/\">PETER LAYTON<\/a>\u00a0|<\/p>\n<p>The world has moved on but most South China Sea strategies are stuck in the past. For example, Australia\u2019s policies have changed very little <a href=\"http:\/\/dfat.gov.au\/geo\/united-states-of-america\/ausmin\/Pages\/ausmin-joint-communique-2011.aspx\">from 2011<\/a> to today. So instead, let\u2019s think about strategies for the future. China first became <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realinstitutoelcano.org\/wps\/portal\/web\/rielcano_en\/contenido?WCM_GLOBAL_CONTEXT=\/elcano\/elcano_in\/zonas_in\/asia-pacific\/ari60-2015-chinas-growing-assertiveness-in-the-south-china-sea\">more assertive<\/a> seven years ago; what could the South China Sea be like seven years from now?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspistrategist.org.au\/anzus-trumpland-seen-coming\/\">Alternative futures<\/a> represent a way for us to think about possible tomorrows. Imagine that the future lies somewhere between the best of all possible worlds and the worst, somewhere between a cooperative and a conflictual state. Neither extreme future is necessarily more likely than the other, but they allow us to think about the spectrum of possibilities. Using the cooperative and conflictual variables creates two possible alternative 2023s:<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2974 size-full alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/testblogs.griffith.edu.au\/asiainsights\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/12\/futures.jpg\" alt=\"futures\" width=\"646\" height=\"372\" srcset=\"https:\/\/testblogs.griffith.edu.au\/asiainsights\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/12\/futures.jpg 646w, https:\/\/testblogs.griffith.edu.au\/asiainsights\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/12\/futures-300x173.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 646px) 100vw, 646px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Please click here to read the full &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspistrategist.org.au\/south-china-seas-worsening-strategic-dilemmas\/\">The South China Sea&#8217;s worsening strategic dilemmas<\/a>&#8221; article in The Strategist by Griffith Asia Institute Visiting Fellow Peter Layton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PETER LAYTON\u00a0| The world has moved on but most South China Sea strategies are stuck in the past. For example, Australia\u2019s policies have changed very little from 2011 to today. So instead, let\u2019s think about strategies for the future. China first became more assertive seven years ago; what could the South China Sea be like<a href=\"https:\/\/testblogs.griffith.edu.au\/asiainsights\/the-south-china-seas-worsening-strategic-dilemmas\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;The South China Sea&#8217;s worsening strategic dilemmas&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":2975,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[245],"tags":[284,1082,421],"class_list":["post-2972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-china-and-north-east-asia","tag-china","tag-peter-layton","tag-south-china-sea"],"acf":[],"modified_by":"Christine Kowalski","yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The South China Sea&#039;s worsening strategic dilemmas | Griffith Asia Insights<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"PETER LAYTON\u00a0| The world has moved on but most South China Sea strategies are stuck in the past. 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