New countries will engage with South China Sea dispute

A growing number of countries outside South-east Asia are challenging China's maritime claims in the South China Sea

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  • Intensifying extra-regional involvement
  • Five kinds of 'FONOP'
  • Innocent passage
  • Non-innocent passage
  • Navigation inside the nine-dash line
  • Strategic interests
  • China's responses

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