By Mehmet Enes Beşer The South China Sea has been the Indo-Pacific’s most combustible hotspot for many years. With rival claims within the sea, strategic sea lanes, and delicate military capabilities, the area needs to be managed with careful diplomacy, each party exercising restraint, and regional stewardship to prevent tensions from increasing. But recent moves by players outside the proximate ...
By Mehmet Enes Beşer There are fewer great power hotspots so long-lasting, so complicated, and so politically obstinate as the South China Sea. It has been a measure of great power competition, an experiment in naval convention, and a melting pot of nationalist anxieties for ten years. The 2025 picture is one of stalemate, more than solution, still less spectacular ...