SOUTH CHINA SEA: CONFLICT, CHALLENGE, AND SOLUTION

Conflicts in the South China Sea and China- ASEAN Economic Interdependence: A Challenge to Cooperation

South China Sea Takes

South China Sea Takes Center Stage At the Fourth Annual Symposium of the International Pacific Research Center, several researchers presented their recent findings on South China Sea climate. A group has now formed under the leadership of IPRC’s Tangdong Qu to coordinate the research in this important climate region. The following pages feature the discovery of how the play among winds, ocean, ...

The South China Sea and U.s.-china-asean Relations

The political and military atmosphere has heated in the South China Sea over the past few years, both bilaterally and multilaterally. However, not every country in the South China Sea has aligned interests. While the Mischief Reef incident of 1994-1995 saw ASEAN united against Chinese assertiveness, each country has grown more focused on isolated issues less relevant to the nations as a group.

Satellite Fish Forecasting in South China Sea

Fish forecasting technology has been applied successfully in many countries. However, most of the forecasting methods used in temperate water were unsuitable to be applied in this region. A fish forecasting model suitable to tropical environment has to be developed. This major project involving several objectives and phases to meet the goal of developing a satellite-based fishery forecasting sy...

South China Sea Isopycnal-Surface Circulation

This paper investigates the seasonal variabilities of the South China Sea isopycnal-surface circulations and of the Kuroshio intrusion through the Luzon Strait using the U.S. Navy’s climatological temperature and salinity dataset (public domain) with 1⁄28 3 1⁄28 resolution by the P-vector method. The representative pattern is a persistent basin-scale cyclonic circulation away from the surface, ...