{"id":142232,"date":"2025-12-12T01:00:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T01:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=142232"},"modified":"2025-12-12T01:00:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T01:00:14","slug":"why-are-south-china-sea-disputes-hard-to-resolve-power-asymmetry-says-malaysian-expert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=142232","title":{"rendered":"Why are South China Sea disputes hard to resolve? Power \u2018asymmetry\u2019, says Malaysian expert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostAn inherent \u201casymmetry\u201d of power poses a challenge to resolving South China Sea disputes via the quiet diplomacy traditionally favoured by Southeast Asian nations, a leading Malaysian security expert has said.<br \/>\nChinese analysts said Beijing supported the \u201cAsean way\u201d too, so long as sovereignty claims were resolved bilaterally. They also warned against external interference and \u201cpower politics\u201d standing in the way of consensus within the bloc.<br \/>\nRuhanas Harun, an international relations professor at&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3336082\/why-are-south-china-sea-disputes-hard-resolve-power-asymmetry-says-malaysian-expert?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostAn inherent \u201casymmetry\u201d of power poses a challenge to resolving South China Sea disputes via the quiet diplomacy traditionally favoured by Southeast Asian nations,&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142232"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=142232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=142232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=142232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=142232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}