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Artificial Islands, real power: reshaping maritime order in the South China Sea
Artificial Islands, real power: reshaping maritime order in the South China Sea

Written by Gilang Kembara

China’s island-building strategy in the South China Sea is not only reshaping the maritime order, but also provoking responses from regional claimants and external actors — whether through competition, imitation, or resistance — that unintentionally reinforce a practice-based order in which behaviour, rather than legal norms, determines outcomes.

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