Why Has Sea Level Rise Not Been Securitized by the PLA?
By Wilson VornDick
Ahead of the United Nations Climate Change Conference,
which is set to take place in Paris later this year, Chinese Premier Li
Keqiang recently announced plans for China to reduce emissions that
contribute to climate change and sea level rise (SLR), making it one of
the boldest moves yet by the world’s leading emitter. Other countries' militaries are responding to climate change and SLR. For China, even
conservative forecasts that predict a three-to-six-foot rise would see a
radical disruption of China’s economy and put its new maritime
construction under the waves. But this threat is not isolated to China’s
coastal and maritime domains–it will affect the global maritime
commons. With so many dire predictions and official government
recognition of SLR, why have SLR mitigation and adaptation strategies
not been officially recognized by the PLA in its operational and
strategic plans?
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