By Gregory Poling
From 2012 to 2021, Beijing steadily advanced its claim to ‘historic rights’ in most of the waters, seabed, and airspace of the South China Sea, using coercion and threats of force to do so. But since 2022, the momentum has shifted. Southeast Asian claimants have stopped giving ground.
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Malaysia
Beijing
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South China Sea
Second Thomas Shoal
China Coast Guard
Manila
Southeast Asia
Philippine Coast Guard
Xi Jinping
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Rodrigo Duterte
Indonesia
Joe Biden
Armed Forces of the Philippines
Tuna
Scarborough Shoal
Anwar Ibrahim
Prabowo Subianto
Joko Widodo
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