[OPINION] Kamala Harris and the cultures shaping the South China Sea conflict

'The US Vice President has forcefully raised the flag of a rule-based global order.' ThoughtLeaders

of US Vice President Kamala Harris, and yet another incident of China’s heavy-handed behavior in our waters, surfaces once again the continuing tensions over the South China Sea and the underlying cultures that shape the contours of this conflict.

The trouble is that China thinks it is a law unto itself. With its newfound power, it has decidedly moved away from the policy of “peaceful rise,” as articulated by Deng Xiao Ping and his contemporaries. Under Xi Jinping’s “perfect dictatorship,” as an expert observer has termed it, China as a giant rising power has now begun to behave once again as the Middle Kingdom, or center of the world.

Similarly, the Philippine political elite may at times behave within the larger orbit of a modern conceptual environment that shares the highly-developed language of the West for “rights” and “rule-based” approaches to ordering society. But just underneath is the more operative traditional code that tends to blur the divide between the formal and the informal domains, where the force of personal connections and interests overrun formal policy and protocols.

The US Vice President has forcefully raised the flag of a rule-based global order. In a way, this is reassuring to a small country that dared to fight back through lawfare. Civilizational norms, however, tend to take a backseat to the hard fact of economics. China thinks it can push us to jointly explore the gas and oil reserves of the Reed Bank, which, as per the PCA ruling, lies completely within our exclusive economic zone.

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