seriously man we chinese have no threatening inttention nor harm means toward philippine ppl, in this case we have our oppion and you have yours and we compete with each other fair and square.Frankly philipine used exact the same means to defend your claims just as china did, the only thing make china looks worse is that china is stronger so we can do it at a whole new scale. The best situation is that we sit down and talk about it and maybe reach a consensus to share but now there are too many variables especially the intervention of the US who is clearly to the whole world that they want to maintain monololy. They don't want us to settle, I bet the US is very happy about the current situation that they can stay in the conflict and manipulate. Think about it, if any skirmish break out, the battle will be between china and philipine, even if china win the battle then so what? we are both losers, the only winer is the US. Do you really believe that US will defend philipine for justice and law? no, they always break the law as they see fit, they pretend to defend you for their own good, and they may do the doubble face as they usually do. The greatest interest for china is to integrate SE Asia and east asia as a whole to develop a equal partnership and prosper regional market maybe a common cultural sphere, the current situation is a failure to us as well, we fail to reach our goals and that's nomal, then the only choice we have is to keep what we can get no matter what. Both you and us can not afford to yeild then it is a pure power play now, this is tough and we certainly must do whatever needed to defend our claim but it doesn't means we hate you or forget what things should be like.