TY  - BOOK
AU  - du Chéné,Amaury
TI  - France and the Pacific
PY  - 2002///.
							
N1  - 9
N2  - The Pacific ocean, characterised by its immensity and lack of population, will be tomorrow a strategic issue for the Powers and France. The military hegemony of the USA is obvious. The Asia-Pacific area is the zone that generates most of the wealth and concentrates all the military tensions today. The Chinese aim at controlling the meridional Chinese sea. The geo-strategic issues in this area tomorrow will be; the control of the meridional chine sea where most of the commercial exchanges takes place; the issue of Taiwan; what will be japon’s attitude in the case of conflict?France from the islands of French Polynesia and New Caledonia should have a strategy as far as these issues at stake are concern. This is easier today as its presence is well accepted since the end of the nuclear tests
UR  - https://shs.cairn.info/journal-hermes-la-revue-2002-1-page-495?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080
ER  -