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South China Sea connects the maritime world of Persian Gulf, Middle East, commercial water body of Indian Ocean and the subcontinent with North East Asia. Energy-rich South China Sea in geopolitical terms is arguably the most important and critical geographic space in the world today. There is no doubt that it has become the principal node of the great power politics in the world. This is due to the result of the great economic rise of the Asian continent from the 70s decade and which has continued through the decades…