China-Southeast Asia Relations: China's Growing Resolve in the South China Sea.

The author describes the state of China-Southeast Asia relations in 2013. He believes that tensions in Chinese relations with Southeast Asian countries by dispute over territorial claims in the South China Sea posed less serious challenges to China compared to the international crisis in Korea and the Sino-Japanese confrontation over disputed East China Sea islands. He reports that China has shown determination to defend and advance its South China Sea claims and uphold China's sovereignty.