Factors Analysis to Determine the Policy from Four Countries around South China Sea

Since 2012, four countries around South China Sea have emphasized each own policy towards South China Sea. Among them, Vietnam and Philippines have enhanced the policy to resist China, while Malaysia and Brunei have insisted on the established policy to defend their illegal interests. It is argued that those changes are resulted in great shifts about primary factors to affect sea policies from four countries. Those shifts are as followed: measures enhanced by Vietnam and Philippines to struggle for interests of South China Sea; China’s un-sustaining policy altered to be more positive; America’s turning to support Vietnam and Philippines; ASEAN’s balance and outside power’s active intervention. Therefore, those factors steady or not will influence the condition of South China Sea in the future, and the tendency to withstand China will last a long time.