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If confidence building measures and the adoption of an arms control regime in the South China Sea, China and the US risk stumbling into a catastrophic war.
Source: https://madrascourier.com/policy/china-us-rivalry-sleepwalking-into-war/
Institutions have long been used as a means for soft balancing, including by the US. However, the US and its allies cannot ignore the norms of the rules based international order, for to do so risks undermining the shared norms soft balancing depends on.
Source: http://blog.yalebooks.com/2018/10/18/the-future-of-international-institutions-and-soft-balancing/
Finding themselves caught between the giants of the United States and China, small states of the Asia-Pacific are not destined to become pawns in the midst of great power competition; instead they can resurrect the ‘Bandung spirit’ and adopt a policy of non’alignment through the use of soft-balancing.
Source: https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/the-power-of-non-alignment/article25185002.ece
To minimize the risk of conflict in the South China Sea, all parties should consider measures to alleviate the dangers that arise from time pressures.
To restrain China India is likely to form both a soft-balancing coalition and limited hard balancing coalition, but the formation of a traditional hard-balancing coalition with the United States is very unlikely.
Source: https://warontherocks.com/2018/09/india-and-the-rise-of-china-soft-balancing-strategy-reconsidered/
Today or tomorrow, China will likely turn against India. New Delhi must be ready for when the time comes.
Source: nationalinterest.org/feature/indias-strategic-roadmap-28322
