Book contents
- Asia-Pacific Perspectives on International Humanitarian Law
- Asia-Pacific Perspectives on International Humanitarian Law
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures and Tables
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Editors’ Note
- 1 Introduction: Asia-Pacific Perspectives on International Humanitarian Law
- Part I Interviews
- Part II Development of International Humanitarian Law
- Part III Practice and Application of International Humanitarian Law
- Part IV Implementation and Enforcement of International Humanitarian Law
- Part V Looking to the Future and Enhancing Compliance with International Humanitarian Law
- 36 International Humanitarian Law and Climate Change
- 37 Dialoguing with Islamic Fighters about International Humanitarian Law: Towards a Relational Normativity
- 38 Combined Exercises and International Humanitarian Law Training: Fostering a Culture of Norm Compliance?
- 39 Implementation of International Humanitarian Law in Southeast Asia: Challenges in the Prevention of Violations
- 40 Anticipating Operational Naval Warfare Issues in International Humanitarian Law That May Arise in the Event of a Conflict in the South China Sea
- 41 ‘Fire and Fury’ at the 38th Parallel: Exploring the Law of War’s Twilight Zones in a Potential Future Conflict on the Korean Peninsula
- Glossary of Publications
- Alphabetical Glossary of Cases and Decisions
- Chronological Glossary of Cases and Decisions
- Treaties and Other International Instruments, Resolutions and National Documents with an International Dimension
- Chronological Glossary of National Legislation and Secondary Instruments
- Peace Agreements and Communiques
- Abbreviations and Translations
- Index
40 - Anticipating Operational Naval Warfare Issues in International Humanitarian Law That May Arise in the Event of a Conflict in the South China Sea
from Part V - Looking to the Future and Enhancing Compliance with International Humanitarian Law
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 October 2019
- Asia-Pacific Perspectives on International Humanitarian Law
- Asia-Pacific Perspectives on International Humanitarian Law
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures and Tables
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Editors’ Note
- 1 Introduction: Asia-Pacific Perspectives on International Humanitarian Law
- Part I Interviews
- Part II Development of International Humanitarian Law
- Part III Practice and Application of International Humanitarian Law
- Part IV Implementation and Enforcement of International Humanitarian Law
- Part V Looking to the Future and Enhancing Compliance with International Humanitarian Law
- 36 International Humanitarian Law and Climate Change
- 37 Dialoguing with Islamic Fighters about International Humanitarian Law: Towards a Relational Normativity
- 38 Combined Exercises and International Humanitarian Law Training: Fostering a Culture of Norm Compliance?
- 39 Implementation of International Humanitarian Law in Southeast Asia: Challenges in the Prevention of Violations
- 40 Anticipating Operational Naval Warfare Issues in International Humanitarian Law That May Arise in the Event of a Conflict in the South China Sea
- 41 ‘Fire and Fury’ at the 38th Parallel: Exploring the Law of War’s Twilight Zones in a Potential Future Conflict on the Korean Peninsula
- Glossary of Publications
- Alphabetical Glossary of Cases and Decisions
- Chronological Glossary of Cases and Decisions
- Treaties and Other International Instruments, Resolutions and National Documents with an International Dimension
- Chronological Glossary of National Legislation and Secondary Instruments
- Peace Agreements and Communiques
- Abbreviations and Translations
- Index
Summary
On 14 March 1988, the Chinese People’s Liberation Army – Navy (PLA-N) and Vietnamese maritime units engaged in a naval battle in the vicinity of Johnson South Reef in the Spratly Islands. Whilst reports vary, between sixty-four and seventy Vietnamese soldiers and sailors were killed, eleven wounded, and two Vietnamese vessels sunk. Nine Vietnamese soldiers taken prisoner during the engagement were held by the Chinese for more than three years, being released in September 1991. One Chinese sailor was wounded. In the long and complicated history of the China–Vietnam dispute in the South China Sea, and this incident was, by any measure, a clear political punctuation mark. It was also an international armed conflict (IAC), notable from a legal perspective mainly as an example of the oft-forgotten potential for maritime IACs to be short, sharp, localised and ‘done’ in a day.
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- Asia-Pacific Perspectives on International Humanitarian Law , pp. 703 - 716Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019