June 13, 2014
By April 2012 or seven months after Aquino III’s visit, China took over the Scarborough Shoals. Aquino III pretended to do something but really he was just letting China take as much from the Philippines. He could have entered a Compact of Free Association with the U.K. or the U.S. or both. But this would mean betraying his ancestral land, China.
Excerpt: Bienvenido Macario writes: This just came in from the BBC: “China successfully took control of the Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea from the Philippines last year (April 2012) by sending paramilitary ships to the shoal. But this will not work vis-a-vis Japan since the Japan Coast Guard is much more capable.”
See Viewpoints: How serious are China-Japan tensions?
7 February 2013
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-21290349
Since China, as in the case of the Spratlys, is basing their claims from ancient maps, then why is China asserting its claims only now in the 21st century and not, say, in the 19th or 20th century?”^^
From: ^^China -> How Serious are China-Japan Tensions? (Bienvenido Macario, USA) 02-08-13
http://waisworld.org/go.jsp?id=02a&objectType=post&o=74794&objectTypeId=66364&topicId=10