CSM comment: "South China Sea, Sandy Cay and Chinese weakness strategy: notes from the frontier of geopolitics and powerlessness of global law"

"The incidental around Sandy Cay in April 2025 could seem like an insignificant episode – a flag stuck on sand swans the size of a playground. But in this insignificant geographically, seemingly peripheral case, the full inertia of the global maritime safety strategy is concentrated, as well as the difficulty of Western and ASEAN states in responding to what Beijing has been doing for years with methodological precision: it violates, tests, leaves and returns. In the comments of CSM, Dr. Maciej Gaca, Prof. UMK, Sinologist, linguist, diplomat, writes. From 2015 to 2019 he was the CEO of the Polish Bureau in Taipei. Lecturer at the Institute of Culture of the Faculty of Humanities at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń

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