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Chapter 4
Analysis and Recommendations
collaboration in a post-industrial era, to the largely known issues of Taiwan etc,
resulted in creation of jobs in the service there are other similar issues that call for
sector, mostly higher-paying and free of the a threat of military action in South China Sea.
backbreaking labor of the agricultural and China took action to claim Scarborough Implications to ASEAN
industrial eras. This collaboration provides Shoal near the Philippines, which has long
real hope of addressing the fundamental been an important fishing area for Philippine.
challenges of the next generation; climate Unlike other South China Sea rocks, Evolving Geo-Strategic Matrix in South China Sea:
change and environmental degradation. Scarborough Shoal was officially claimed
by the Philippines in the 1930s, so China’s
Military strategy in the South China assertion that its 11-dash line was the first
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Sea is based on China’s maritime claims, claim in the region is false. It is important
as well as its refusal to provide foreign because without Scarborough Shoal,
access to its domestic market. In addition China’s line of rocks is broken.
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34 Jay L. Batongbacal, “Bajo de Masinloc (Scarborough Shoal): Less-known Facts vs. Published Fiction,”
Institute for Maritime and Ocean Affairs, De La Salle University, September 26, 2014.
