Inside The China-Philippines Fight In The South China Sea -- International Herald Tribune
Fish, oil and bananas all play a role in the latest round of the high-stakes sovereignty dispute in the South China Sea, a problem that may rival Europe’s own 19th-century “Schleswig-Holstein Question.” That long-simmering territorial dispute, between Denmark and Germany, led the British politician Lord Palmerston to quip that only three people had ever understood it: a dead prince, a German professor who went mad, “and I, who have forgotten all about it.”
There’s less chance of forgetting in the South China Sea, a vast sea territory disputed by half a dozen Asian nations where trillions of dollars in oil and gas deposits are at stake and tempers have flared for weeks, with accusations of bullying between competing nations and even of war preparations by China.
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My Comment: The old saying .... "might makes right" plays in China's favor in this dispute. But the Filipinos are a very proud and independent people .... and they are not going to be forgiving of the Chinese for what the Chinese have done in the South Chinese Seas.
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