Abstract：Islands and islets of South China Sea have belonged to China from the years of old. Because of its particular territorial and resource-strategic value, the sovereign rights dispute of the territory and marginal sea among countries around South China Sea becomes more and more fierce, which leads to the complex situation of "6 countries and 7 aspects" today.
In order to settle the sovereign rights dispute in South China Sea peacefully, China has signed a proclamation with countries in ASEAN in November, 2002, which contributes to the economic cooperation and political trust, reducing the interference and imposing from the foreign power, and forming a basis for a fair, rational and peaceful dispute settlement. The situation of South China Sea had remained overall stable in recent years. Viet Nam, Philippines and China explored gas and oil together successfully in the restricted area in 2005.However, fire sound was heard in the peaceful Nansha Sea Area on April 27th, and Chinese fishermen were attacked. On the same day, the newspaper in Vietnam Lao Dong said that Vietnam was building mobile communication network on the Nansha Islands. These deeds, done by countries around South China Sea to gain advantageous position, exposed the fragility of the proclaim between ASEAN and China, and brought the sovereign rights dispute in South China Sea the focus of global society again.
This article probes into the geo-strategic and resource-strategic value of South China Sea, and presents the origin and status quo of the sovereign rights dispute in South China Sea and the legislated position of China's sovereign rights. According to this, the article tries to analyze the fact of the South China Sea dispute, and draws the conclusion that with the construction of free trade area between ASEAN and China in 2010 and the startup of economic cooperation program Greater Mekong Subregion, the economic cooperation, political trust and mutual interests between countries around South China Sea and China will increase, which will help reduce the foreign pretext to stop China's development, and the direct related countries will work together to find a reasonable way to settle the South China Sea dispute.
刘养洁. 南海主权地缘政治经济透析[J]. 人文地理, 2006, 21(4): 123-126.
LIU Yang-jie. GEOPOLITIC ECONOMIC PERSPECTIVE TOWARDS THE SOVEREIGN RIGHTS IN SOUTH CHINA SEA. HUMAN GEOGRAPHY, 2006, 21(4): 123-126.
