A Study on Cross-Strait Maritime Security Cooperation：Focus on South China Sea

• Main Authors: Hsieh Chia Ling, 謝嘉玲
• Other Authors: Lee Jui Sheng
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2014
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/jva6tx

碩士 === 國立金門大學 === 海洋事務研究所 === 102 === In the South China Sea, the existing traditional and non-traditional maritime security threat involves many levels such as the sensitive sovereign issues of surrounding countries, allocation of the rich marine resources, interest demands of marine traffic navigation, the coastal countries’ marine law enforcement ability and so on. With the involvement of outside powers that the claimants’ roped in for their own interests, the regional maritime security problems have leaned from regional to international, thus it has become a common global maritime security concern. The cross-straits both have complicated entanglements and similar opinions regarding the maritime security problems of the South China Sea, whether on the sovereignty or the allocation of marine resources. The multiparty competition of claimants from “six countries, seven parties” and American’s “Back to Asia” policy made the South China issue more complex and difficult to deal with. Currently, the biggest challenges against the cross-strait cooperation issue are political consideration and insufficient mutual trust. With the peace agreement not being signed, if the cross-strait cooperates and the Mainland emphasizes that the cooperation is under the one-China principle, it may strengthen the international community’s perception of Taiwan being a part of the Mainland, which may cause America and Japan to doubt Taiwan and lead to an intense struggle internally in Taiwan. Due to the special environment and limitation that Taiwan faces with regard to the international policy, other disputing countries usually deny our country’s role and rights intentionally, which causes the gradually marginalized situation in the South China Sea issue. So cooperating with the Mainland may be the effective way for us to solve the South China Sea problem. Since the Ma Ying-Jeou administration held power, the cross-strait negotiation process, as well as economic and trade relations, has returned to normal operations. The warming of the cross-straits relations has provided an important base for the cross-strait cooperation on maritime security in the South China Sea. So based on the experiences from the negotiation process, the cross-straits can take the same strategy and principle to seek a feasible pattern for the maritime security cooperation in the South China Sea and then enable both sides to consolidate sovereign rights and get the biggest interests from the South China Sea disputes.