![]() ![]() ![]() Xi wanted to advance the development and exploitation of resources in areas over which he considered he had sovereign rights, clearly the South China Sea (SCS), seeking friendly and mutually beneficial cooperation with other countries, using peaceful means and negotiations to resolve disputes and seeking to safeguard peace and stability5.Īll these declarations, and the corresponding policies and actions derived from them, with particular emphasis on those implemented by Xi Jinping, are intended to send the message that a China that has become the world's second economic power and a major global trading power does not want to and cannot limit itself to being the continental power it has traditionally been considered to be. ![]() In July 2013, during a session of the Political Directorate of the CPC Central Committee, Xi sent the clear message that China must protect its "maritime rights and interests", and that to do so it had to develop the corresponding plans, always within a peaceful framework, and in no case must it renounce the rights and interests it considers legitimate. This paper analyses this evolution and the strong support of the Chinese state to effect this transformation, and identifies some of the elements causing geopolitical tensions derived from China’s rapid rise to the status of maritime power. ![]() Nowadays, it is almost on a par with the United States, the great and almost hegemonic maritime power for the last 80 years. Without ceasing to be a continental (land) power, China began to develop as a maritime power in all its facets to 40 years later become a "great maritime power" with enormous influence throughout the world. Since the 1980s under Deng Xiaoping, and taken up by subsequent leaders of the People's Republic of China, the country has been opening up to the world, developing on the basis of a market economy with Chinese characteristics, and for economic and commercial as well as historical reasons, the country is once again looking to the sea. This document is a copy of the original published by the Spanish Institute for Strategic Studies at the following link. ![]()
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