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François-Xavier Bonnet is a Manila-based geographer and associate researcher with the Research Institute on Contemporary Southeast Asia (IRASEC).

The Spratlys: A Geopolitics of Secret Maritime Sea-Lanes

By François-Xavier Bonnet | September 16, 2016 | Categories: South China Sea, Spratly Islands
Except for the work of a  few analysts like Carlyle Thayer, Daniel Schaeffer, and Leszek Buszynski, the role of bathymetry and submarine warfare in the Spratly Islands dispute has been largely ignored. To better understand this aspect of the dispute, it is necessary to dispel the myth of the Spratlys as an area of shallow […]
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