Exploring the governance path of South China Sea in the perspective of"profound change unseen in a century"
GONG Yanwei
CHEN Shaoyang
Abstract：In the perspective of the"profound change unseen in a century",frequent and cutting-edge is-sues in ocean governance,serious ideological divisions and challenges to governance regulations have been emerging.Global ocean governance is facing numerous contradictions including the mismatch be-tween the supply and demand of public goods,the ideological conflict between neoliberal institutional-ism and populism and the misalignment of the rights,responsibilities and capabilities of governance ac-tors.As a specific form of global ocean governance,the South China Sea(SCS)governance is facing se-vere challenges including legal and institutional deficiencies and geopolitical issues.The COVID-19 pan-demic,populism threatening to cooperative governance and intensification of geopolitical competition hindering governance development have put additional pressures on the human-ocean relationship,fur-ther exacerbating the contradictions in SCS governance.In the new era,China should fully leverage the enhanced discourse power brought about by the peaceful rise of China,improve the efficiency of govern-ance product provision through the advancement of island and reef functional construction,deepen the construction of governance regulatory systems to safeguard maritime order,and cooperate with ASEAN to develop the blue economy,so that a community of ASC can share the future of the South China Sea,and jointly address the coming challenges.
Keywords：profound change in a centurySouth China Sea governancemaritime destiny communityblue partnerpath of China
Publication Date：2025-06-30
Online Publishing Date：2026-05-22(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：8( 227-234 )