As tensions continue to mount in the waters surrounding the contested islands of the South China Sea, a US navy aircraft\u00a0carrier conducted exercises\u00a0in the region on August 17. This came after the Trump administration hardened the US\u2019s longstanding neutral position on China\u2019s maritime claims in the South China Sea.<\/p>\n
After all its posturing, the US is struggling to build a coalition against China. In this article in The Conversation, Dr\u00a0<\/a>Pak Lee<\/a> and Anisa Heritage look at the Trump administration’s actions – and results – in the disputed area with reference to their book “Order, Contestation and Ontological Security-Seeking in the South China Sea”,<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As tensions continue to mount in the waters surrounding the contested islands of the South China Sea, a US navy aircraft\u00a0carrier conducted exercises\u00a0in the region … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67700,"featured_media":2200,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[807,131004,131000,131002,37],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2199"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67700"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2199"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2210,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2199\/revisions\/2210"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}