(Analysis) Two Precedent-Setting South China Sea Joint Development Areas
2016-03-14 09:00:15 source：Eurasia Review
wo Joint Development Areas - one lying between North Vietnam and the Paracel Islands and the other off northern Philippine Palawan - could provide a template for other joint development projects between China and her southern neighbors in the South China Sea.
By Stewart Taggart
March 13, 2016
"Creating two South China Sea Joint Development Areas (JDAs) - one off Vietnam, the other off the Philippines - will lower worsening political tensions between China and Southeast Asia.
One of the two JDAs could be located off between Chinese occupied Triton Island in the Paracels and the northern Vietnamese coastal city of Da Nang."
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