Fair Winds and Following Seas: Maritime Security and Hedging in the South China Sea

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Fair Winds and Following Seas: Maritime Security and Hedging in the South China Sea

Southeast Asian countries have adopted an array of hedging tactics around the South China Sea to deepen engagement with China while bolstering their own domestic defense capabilities and simultaneously expanding security cooperation with a variety of external partners.

By Elina Noor, Hunter Marston, Bich Tran, Richard Javad Heydarian

Published on Aug 31, 2023

Blue Security: A Maritime Affairs Series

About the Authors

Elina Noor

Nonresident Scholar, Asia Program

Elina Noor is a nonresident scholar in the Asia Program at Carnegie where she focuses on developments in Southeast Asia, particularly the impact and implications of technology in reshaping power dynamics, governance, and nation-building in the region.

Hunter Marston

Bich Tran

Bich Tran is an adjunct fellow at the Center for Strategic & International Studies.

Richard Javad Heydarian

Richard Javad Heydarian is an academic, author, and incoming fellow at National Chengchi University in Taiwan. He is the author of The Rise of Duterte: A Populist Revolt Against Elite Democracy (2017), Asia’s New Battlefield: The US, China and the Struggle for the Western Pacific (2015), and The Indo-Pacific: Trump, China and the New Global Struggle for Mastery (forthcoming).

Economy Security Foreign Policy East Asia China Southeast Asia

Carnegie does not take institutional positions on public policy issues; the views represented herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of Carnegie, its staff, or its trustees.

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