Containing China in the South China Sea is a fiction: Professor Bec Strating @LowyInstitute
Containing China in the South China Sea is a fiction: Professor Bec Strating  @LowyInstitute
Uploaded June 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 hours ago
China is already influential in the Pacific, the Indian Ocean, and across global institutions. Professor Bec Strating tells a Lowy Institute audience that containment is the wrong frame. What matters, she says, is preserving the South China Sea as an open, shared waterway.

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Containing China in the South China Sea is a fiction: Professor Bec Strating

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