What Can the South China Sea Learn from the Arctic?

April 5, 2017 Topic: Security Region: Eurasia Blog Brand: The Buzz Tags: ArcticSouth China SeaDefenseChinaDiplomacyNine-Dash Line

What Can the South China Sea Learn from the Arctic?

There’s a way to resolve the dispute to everyone’s benefit.

Daniel Thomassen is a Commander (senior grade) in the Royal Norwegian Navy. He is a Surface Warfare Officer serving as Commanding Officer of HNoMS Fridtjof Nansen (FFGH). He is a graduate of the Royal Norwegian Naval Academy (2002), U.S. Naval War College (2015), and holds an MA in International Relations from Salve Regina University (2015).

Image: USS Connecticut surfaces above the ice during ICEX 2011.​ Flickr/U.S. Navy

This first appeared in CIMSEC here.