PHCharls Posted June 27, 2011 Share Posted June 27, 2011 (edited) Source News of the rising tension in the South China Sea is making virtually every citizen in the area a bit edgy. The potential of a full-blown war is looming, unless the parties involved can come up with a peaceful resolution to the Spratly Islands dispute. China's bullying of smaller countries laying claim to parts of the highly contested archipelago is not surprising. China, as the most powerful of the lot, could have exercised prudence, but perhaps it has grown tired of waiting for something to happen. If China were confident of its claim on the islands then why is it acting in such an insecure manner? China claims that they have been occupying the islands as early as 200 BC. At that time, the other parties in the dispute had not yet discovered seafaring. However, the other states, including the Republic of China (Taiwan), Malaysia, the Philippines, Vietnam, and Brunei, which are laying claim to the Spratlys contend that, based on the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, of which the disputing states are signatories, the islands fall within 200 nautical miles of their shores and are therefore part of their jurisdiction. Whatever the argument may be, if no one concedes, no agreement will be reached and the conflict will continue to escalate. This means that none of the claiming countries will be able to exploit the resources, which are the basis for the dispute, and the very reason why none of the parties is yielding. But come on, are we talking about these countries' interests or the interests of a few of their people? Why can't this issue be peacefully resolved? Why can't they be content with the territories that have been claimed and be done with it? Why do they have to claim everything? The leaders of these countries should realize that if this issue won't be resolved then no economic development in the area would happen, and not one of the contending states would benefit from the islands’ resources. Is it possible for them to just divide the islands equally? Perhaps that is the solution to this problem. The leaders should start to realize that resolving the issue would be in the best interests of their people. In my thoughts,China shouldn't colonize it because Philippines is a third-world country.even though I am a Chinese horned in the Philippines.still they shouldn't have done that. Edited June 27, 2011 by PHCharls Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sivispacem Posted June 27, 2011 Share Posted June 27, 2011 No-ones going to go to war over some tiny atolls, least of all China. They've got all the oil they'll need in the short term by funding dirty little wars across half of Sub-Saharan Africa and buying out Middle Eastern despots. Regardless, looking at the geography, China has no real claim to the islands. Purely in terms of who is closest, it varies from area to area but the Philippines appear to have a claim over the largest proportion of it due to the proximity to their shoreline, followed by Malaysia, Brunei and Vietnam in that order. AMD Ryzen 5900X (4.65GHz All-Core PBO2) | Gigabye X570S Pro | 32GB G-Skill Trident Z RGB 3600MHz CL16 EK-Quantum Reflection D5 | XSPC D5 PWM | TechN/Heatkiller Blocks | HardwareLabs GTS & GTX 360 Radiators Corsair AX750 | Lian Li PC-O11 Dynamic XL | EVGA GeForce RTX2080 XC @2055MHz | Sabrant Rocket Plus 1TB Sabrant Rocket 2TB | Samsung 970 Evo 1TB | 2x ASUS ROG Swift PG279Q | Q Acoustics 2010i | Sabaj A4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PHCharls Posted June 28, 2011 Author Share Posted June 28, 2011 Yeah sivis Now I heard in the news that American navy went to a province in the Phil. to practice how to defend the spartlys Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GerryM Posted June 30, 2011 Share Posted June 30, 2011 It's clearly Philippine territory. China I think is 700 miles away from the spratlys. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PHCharls Posted July 1, 2011 Author Share Posted July 1, 2011 It's clearly Philippine territory. China I think is 700 miles away from the spratlys. Yeah I agree I think I know why china will get it because of their history.because I studied chinese history in school Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spaceeinstein Posted July 1, 2011 Share Posted July 1, 2011 (edited) The Taiwanese has a military presence on one of the island for a long time, and I think they even have structures on that already, so I'm not sure if all of Spratly can be claimed by one country. Vietnam is also active on the islands. Not much news from Malaysia and Brunei. Edited July 1, 2011 by spaceeinstein Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PHCharls Posted July 3, 2011 Author Share Posted July 3, 2011 The Taiwanese has a military presence on one of the island for a long time, and I think they even have structures on that already, so I'm not sure if all of Spratly can be claimed by one country. Vietnam is also active on the islands. Not much news from Malaysia and Brunei. Yeah Vietnam also gonna defend the spratlys Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Posted July 3, 2011 Share Posted July 3, 2011 It's clearly Philippine territory. China I think is 700 miles away from the spratlys. Likewise the UK should give up the Falkands? That's not rhetorical, just wondering on your view on that too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sivispacem Posted July 3, 2011 Share Posted July 3, 2011 It's clearly Philippine territory. China I think is 700 miles away from the spratlys. Likewise the UK should give up the Falkands? That's not rhetorical, just wondering on your view on that too. I think the Falklands is a different issue because the vast majority of it's residents see themselves as British. For the most part, the Spartly Islands are uninhabited, and those areas that have been inhabited are militarised an colonised by the powers claiming to possess a monopoly on their use. AMD Ryzen 5900X (4.65GHz All-Core PBO2) | Gigabye X570S Pro | 32GB G-Skill Trident Z RGB 3600MHz CL16 EK-Quantum Reflection D5 | XSPC D5 PWM | TechN/Heatkiller Blocks | HardwareLabs GTS & GTX 360 Radiators Corsair AX750 | Lian Li PC-O11 Dynamic XL | EVGA GeForce RTX2080 XC @2055MHz | Sabrant Rocket Plus 1TB Sabrant Rocket 2TB | Samsung 970 Evo 1TB | 2x ASUS ROG Swift PG279Q | Q Acoustics 2010i | Sabaj A4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Posted July 3, 2011 Share Posted July 3, 2011 It's clearly Philippine territory. China I think is 700 miles away from the spratlys. Likewise the UK should give up the Falkands? That's not rhetorical, just wondering on your view on that too. I think the Falklands is a different issue because the vast majority of it's residents see themselves as British. For the most part, the Spartly Islands are uninhabited, and those areas that have been inhabited are militarised an colonised by the powers claiming to possess a monopoly on their use. There must be some people seen as natives surely though? I'm asking as I'm admittedly completely naive about the whole situation. Methinks I need to educate myself on this matter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sivispacem Posted July 4, 2011 Share Posted July 4, 2011 It's clearly Philippine territory. China I think is 700 miles away from the spratlys. Likewise the UK should give up the Falkands? That's not rhetorical, just wondering on your view on that too. I think the Falklands is a different issue because the vast majority of it's residents see themselves as British. For the most part, the Spartly Islands are uninhabited, and those areas that have been inhabited are militarised an colonised by the powers claiming to possess a monopoly on their use. There must be some people seen as natives surely though? I'm asking as I'm admittedly completely naive about the whole situation. Methinks I need to educate myself on this matter. Nope, no indigenous population to speak of. AMD Ryzen 5900X (4.65GHz All-Core PBO2) | Gigabye X570S Pro | 32GB G-Skill Trident Z RGB 3600MHz CL16 EK-Quantum Reflection D5 | XSPC D5 PWM | TechN/Heatkiller Blocks | HardwareLabs GTS & GTX 360 Radiators Corsair AX750 | Lian Li PC-O11 Dynamic XL | EVGA GeForce RTX2080 XC @2055MHz | Sabrant Rocket Plus 1TB Sabrant Rocket 2TB | Samsung 970 Evo 1TB | 2x ASUS ROG Swift PG279Q | Q Acoustics 2010i | Sabaj A4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PHCharls Posted July 9, 2011 Author Share Posted July 9, 2011 http://globalnation.inquirer.net/5676/phil...ace-in-spratlys The Philippines officials are having a peace talk to Chinese officials Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ari Gold Posted July 9, 2011 Share Posted July 9, 2011 Wow, and I thought the Balkan conflicts were lame. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PHCharls Posted July 14, 2011 Author Share Posted July 14, 2011 http://www.philstar.com/Article.aspx?artic...ubCategoryId=63 Also some province in PHI. Rejected Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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