Journal of International Studies

By Christopher L. Daniels Lanham: Scarecrow Press, 2012

Preferring to go it alone, Beijing still makes positive parallel contributions. Part two of a two-part series. India, China and the Pirates Sunk Costs: China and the Pirates India Takes Fight to Pirates China’s Navy–Good for us all? International Migration Concerns China has achieved many firsts under the umbrella of antipiracy. These include its first major contributions to securing sea lines of communication (SLOC), a commendable start. World navies do better at protecting vulnerable maritime regions when they cooperate. There are manifold reasons for this: the transnational economic and political damage that piracy wreaks, the vast area of the western Indian Ocean in which pirates attack, the large number of merchant ships traversing these waters, the diversity of flag states responsible for them, and the resource-intensiveness of naval response options. Accordingly, numerous regional and international antipiracy mechanisms have been established in key strategic are...