South China Sea has vital significance in the region as well as indo-pacific geopolitics. South China Sea is one of the world largest and semi enclosed sea. It stretches around 3.5 million square kilometers (1.4 million square miles) (Jennings, 2017). The average depth of sea is 4,000 feet with its continental shelf. This is a warm sea with high salt content. It is full of living and non-living resources with one of world busiest trade route, linking Pacific Ocean to India Ocean (Kaplan, 2016). South China Sea is widened from Singapore Strait to Taiwan Strait with a group of countries like Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippine, Brunei, Thailand, Cambodia, Singapore, Vietnam, the People’s Republic of China and the Republic of China (Taiwan) (Perkins, 2013). The SCS is the combinations of the thousands of the islands, reef, islets, corals, shoals and atolls spread 900 km from east to west and 1800 km from north to…
