Geo-Strategic Analysis of South China Sea in the light of sino American Force Projections

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Rakesh Kumar Dahiya, S.P.Vats

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Since 1945, overwhelming U.S. naval and aviation force has been projecting from a number of distant and over-the-horizon locations, patrolling the S.C.S &the western Pacific. The China coastline has become a frontier of control as a result of China's dramatic rise. In an area that was formerly controlled by maritime power, China is attempting to transform maritime theater by utilizing land-based techniques on its coast. A lot of its strategic goals are supported by securing the southern part of the Chinese Sea as a de facto territorial waterway. As a result, China is attempting to establish a constant entry point within "Spykman's Eurasian," marine perimeter. China is a land-based Eurasian force. The Obama administration's Asian Pivot has altered U.S.A countered this trend. The Asian Pivot, however, is constrained by a number of post-Cold War events as well as certain limitations brought on by the S.C.S geographical location. The Southern China’scoastline aside,the geopolitical position is favourable to the United States of America and its coalition partners. Therefore, American alternatives continue to be flexible and capable to provide an eventual permanent neutralize against Chinese coercive estimates capabilities into the western Pacific, whether operating alone or in concert or other nations, especially Tokyo as well as Canberra.

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