The Changes of 'South China Sea Issues' and Taiwan's Respondent Strategies / 「南海問題」的演變與台灣的因應策略

碩士 / 國立暨南國際大學 / 東南亞研究所 / 96 / The Spratly Islands that are far away from Taiwan controls South China Sea’s international naval route. Each day, there are hundreds of vessels pass by that made Spratly Islands strategic important. Neighboring countries covet over Spratly Islands over its rich crude oil deposit and mineral deposits. The South China Sea area may seem peaceful; in reality, it is where neighboring countries fight to try to gain a hold of it. Taiwan has control over Tai-Ping Island and Dong-Sha Islands, the neighboring countries has control over the rest of the islands. These countries include Taiwan, China, Vietnam, Philippine, Malaysia, Indonesia and Brunei. Forces outside the region such as the United States and Japan are also influencing the region. These countries are harvesting and mining the resources available in the region. The Spratly Islands are one of the areas that are most likely to cause conflicts. Taiwan’s sovereignty over Spratly Islands is facing difficult challenges.
It clearly defines in the South China Sea policy that Taiwan owns Spratly Islands. Based on National Strategic point of view, the author took a document analytic approach to verify the problem. This research emphasis on analyzing ASEAN countries involved in the Spratly Islands dispute and how these countries modified their national defense and diplomatic policy; the rising of China made the situation harder for Taiwan. Taiwan must be involved in the future negotiations of Spratly Islands to ensure Taiwan still has the proper authority over Spratly Islands.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:TW/096NCNU0606025
Date January 2008
CreatorsWang, Yong-Hua, 王永華
Contributors陳佩修
Source SetsNational Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations in Taiwan
Languagezh-TW
Detected LanguageEnglish
Type學位論文 ; thesis
Format174

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