Shelving disputes is the same as developing, right?

Politics and interpersonal communication actually have the same effect. If something can't be solved, let it go first, but letting it go doesn't mean it can't be solved. This has always been the wisdom of our ancestors.

The exact meaning of "shelving disputes" is: I insist that this is mine, but I can't take you away for a while. Maybe none of us will get any benefit from taking it back, so let go of the problems that can't be solved first and wait for our descendants to solve them.

"* * * with the development" means that at present I say it's mine, but it's always under your actual control, so I don't care, and you don't have to be afraid of me hitting you, but you have to give me some benefits, and I didn't admit it's yours.

Facing the South China Sea, the people of China have mixed feelings. But anger can't solve the problem. Only by wisdom and reason can we finally find a way out.

Since 2004, Southeast Asian countries have conducted a series of frequent actions, such as oil exploration bidding and joint military exercises, on the South China Sea islands, which have aroused strong dissatisfaction among China people. For a time, the dispute over sovereignty in the South China Sea once again became the focus.

On April 19, despite China's protest, Vietnam allowed a ship carrying about 60 Vietnamese tourists and 40 "specially invited" officials to visit Nanwei Island and Xijiao which it occupied for a week. Hanoi said that the trip was approved by the Ministry of National Defense and was planned from 1998, saying that it was only a tentative trip.

Yang Chunhui, deputy director of the Tourism Department of Vietnam Tourism General Administration, said that the development of Nansha tourism resources is more economical than the development of offshore fishing, which requires only 5 billion Vietnamese dong (about 24.6 million yuan) to get immediate results.

The South China Sea issue has a long history. Recently, why are relevant countries so active on this issue? "The main reason is the Iraq war." Zhai Kun, an expert on Southeast Asian issues at the Institute of Contemporary International Relations, told China Newsweek that "the Iraqi war has made the situation in the Middle East unstable and oil prices have risen, while China and Southeast Asian countries are in a period of economic rise and have great demand for energy, so the energy problem is reflected in the South China Sea issue, because everyone knows that there is oil in the South China Sea."

Fighting for the South China Sea equals fighting for oil?

The proven oil reserves in the coastal waters of the South China Sea are about 7 billion barrels. Due to the rich oil reserves in the coastal waters, oil exploration experts have speculated that the South China Sea Islands must contain huge oil resources, and even said that Nansha will become the "second Persian Gulf" in the future. This conjecture triggered the neighboring countries' contention for the sovereignty of the South China Sea Islands. Regarding the oil reserves in the South China Sea, China estimated that the whole South China Sea region could reach 21300 million barrels. But this figure has not been widely recognized.

Thomas Barnett, an adviser to the Pentagon and a professor at the Naval War College, once said, "Frankly speaking, there is not much oil there."

JusufWanandi, director of the Indonesian Center for Strategic and International Studies and an expert on Southeast Asian issues, said in an interview with China Newsweek in Boao, Hainan: "So far, many studies have not shown that the South China Sea is really rich in oil, and there may be more in the future, but there is no need to make regional relations tense."

The oil resources in the South China Sea are mainly concentrated in Nansha. The oil resources near Brunei are the most abundant and the exploitation cost is the lowest. The competition among countries for the South China Sea is mainly Nansha Islands. At present, there are more than 200 oil and gas fields in Nansha sea area, and more than 1000 oil wells have been explored and developed in Southeast Asian countries, with an annual oil production of more than 40 million tons, of which Malaysia has the largest output, and China has not participated in the exploitation.

The more important significance of competition is strategic.

"In the beginning, the energy problem in the South China Sea was exaggerated. First of all, countries have strategic needs. As for how much oil there is in the South China Sea, further verification is needed. " Zhai Kun analyzed the South China Sea issue like this.

Therefore, in addition to the energy factor, the strategic importance of the South China Sea Islands is another important reason for Southeast Asian countries to compete for it. The South China Sea Islands are located in the throat between the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean. They are the only places where many international shipping and air routes pass, and they are also the key points to defend the Straits of Malacca, bashi channel, Balintang and Barabba.

In recent years, the joint military exercises of the US military have obviously tilted towards the Asia-Pacific region. According to statistics, joint military exercises between the United States and other countries have accounted for more than 70% of all exercises in the United States.

Considering the strategic interests of the South China Sea Waterway, Japan and India frequently send ships in and out of the South China Sea in the name of cracking down on transnational crimes such as piracy, drug smuggling and illegal immigration, so as to directly and permanently infiltrate military forces into Southeast Asia.

"From the northern Arabian Sea to the South China Sea, it is India's interest," declared Indian Defense Minister Fernandez. 1The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, which came into effect in 1994, clearly stipulates that a sovereign state can draw an exclusive economic zone of 200 nautical miles and a continental shelf of no more than 350 nautical miles along the baseline of its territorial sea. If there is an island on the border, it should be drawn from the baseline of the island. This clause expands the sovereignty dispute in the South China Sea from land to sea.

Nansha Island in China is less than 100 nautical mile from Southeast Asian countries. If countries demarcate according to the provisions of international law, their sovereign areas will be incorporated into each other's exclusive economic zones and continental shelves.

"How to solve this problem is not clearly stipulated in the Convention, and there is no unified conclusion on the principle of delimitation of the continental shelf and exclusive economic zone of adjacent and opposite countries. This has caused disputes between countries, so there is an island in the South China Sea. With the competition between the continental shelf and the exclusive economic zone, the problem has become more complicated. " Wu Hui, a professor of international law at the Institute of International Relations, told this reporter.

Put aside the dispute, * * * has developed.

Wu Jianmin, deputy director of the Foreign Affairs Committee of Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, former ambassador to France and president of the Foreign Affairs College, told this reporter: "There are some contradictions and frictions in neighboring countries, and great wisdom is needed to solve the problems. We share common interests with neighboring countries and regions. China's policy on the Nansha issue is very clear,' shelve disputes and jointly develop'. "

As early as the mid-1980s, when talking about the Diaoyu Islands issue, Deng Xiaoping put forward the principle of "shelving disputes and jointly developing". At that time, when talking about the Nansha Islands, the Philippine President said, "These islands are at our doorstep and belong to us." Deng Xiaoping immediately replied: "The Philippines is still very close to us." It strongly refutes the reason for claiming sovereignty by distance.

1990, China formally put forward this principle in the Nansha dispute.

1994 When the ASEAN Regional Forum was announced, many countries, including the United States, Russia, South Korea, Japan and Europe, wanted to discuss the South China Sea issue in the ASEAN Regional Forum. China thought that this would make the problem international and more difficult to solve, so he changed his strategy and took the initiative to engage in dialogue with ASEAN countries as a whole.