Indonesia’s New Year’s message to China over the Natunas dispute: A game changer?

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A statement issued on New Year’s Day by the Indonesian Ministry of Foreign Affairs against alleged Chinese encroachments over the Indonesian Exclusive Economic Zone in the Natunas may prove to be a d

iplomatic and legal game changer in the increasingly volatile South China Sea.

In addition, Indonesia bluntly rejected any suggestion of bilateral talks with China to delimit what the latter says are overlapping maritime jurisdictions, as there are none to speak of. China appears to expand the exception outlined by PCA to the UNCLOS regime that allows traditional fishing in territorial waters by competing claimants .

In any case, Chinese poaching in the EEZs of its ASEAN neighbors can hardly be considered subsistence fishing. Instead, it often involves what experts call China’s “Second Surging Sea Force” network of large fishing fleets working in tandem with Chinese navy and Coastguard vessels.

The three countries’ combined message should unsettle China, as it confirms Beijing’s failure to marshal support among the region’s biggest economic and political players – not counting the Philippines – for its rejection of the PCA’s ruling striking its Nine-Dash-Line claim.

 

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