Well to be honest/fair i agree with you. Funny thing is its not china who started building runaways/fortifying its position on SCS islands. It was actually Vietnam first, followed by the philippines who strated this game. However, i blame China's CCP passivity for being so passive(as always) and waiting soooo long to even start any concrete claims/building in the region(as i said before the KMT would have done that long ago, had they been ruling China). You might be surprise why i will have prefered China to start doing this decades ago, reason for this is Yes for more peace and stability. Truth is had they started this decades ago when the region was still quite peaceful/most countries didnt really bother that much, then there wouldn't have been sooo much issues today. We now live in an information/tech savvy/interconnected world, where news spreads like fire. So its very dificult to do things today which you would have done yesterday or in the 80s-90s without anybody/common people ever finding out/bothering, thats without talking about Chinas current size(and it being a rival/trying to challenge to the U.S/west). So in some ways the CCP brought this onto itself IMO.
Also giving the country's size its bound to attract more attention/scrunity than smaller countries(for example vietnam took some filipinos islands few decades ago without much fanfare.lool)
Th best solution to this crisis is just to share the resources between all parties , and joint/exploration/ownership of these islands. its either this, current status quo or war(where let the best/strongest win).
As for those members who think we will go to war with China because of some insignificant islands which by the way several other countries claim, its simply laughable/naive. We wont jeopardise our huge interests/business because of these barren small islands. they should be realistic. For example just check this news, just to give you an idea of U.S business interests in China, and mind you this is just one company: read this:
In China, Apple is bigger than Tencent, Lenovo, and all other tech brands
Image Credit: Jeff Grubb/GamesBeat
April 16, 2015 11:15 AM
Jeff Grubb
Western products are a hot product in China — especially if they have the word “Apple” on them.
As China’s economy continues to grow and more of its 1.36 billion people adopt cutting-edge technologies, Apple is one of the companies benefiting big time. In terms of revenues, Apple is the No. 1 tech brand in that nation by far, according to a report from research firm Newzoo. With $37 billion generated in China, Apple eclipses every other Western and domestic company competing in the market. It’s bigger than Chinese Internet company Tencent, which owns the massively successful League of Legends and Cross-Fire games. It more than doubles Huawei’s $17.5 billion and Lenovo’s $14.7 billion, and both are Chinese companies that also produce smartphones.
These revenues are an important indicator that Apple is leading the way in China, and game developers looking to enter the market would likely benefit from making iOS games for the region.
These enormous revenues don’t come because Apple is outselling its competition in terms of raw units shipped. Instead, the company has the premium products that act as status symbols for China’s growing upper classes.
“With the introduction in September 2013 of the iPhone 5S and the less expensive 5C, many analysts believed the lower priced 5C was finally a product tailored to Asian markets, in particular China,” Newzoo chief executive officer Peter Warman said. “Whether by luck or design, Apple’s blockbuster products in China are not the less expensive iPhone models such as the 5C but the high-end 5S, 6, and 6 Plus, along with iPads and iMacs. If there was ever any potent evidence needed that Chinese consumers have money to spend and are willing to pay for quality and status, this is it.”
And one thing that other companies could potentially learn from Apple is that the company didn’t treat the Chinese differently than it does its other consumers around the world. Traditionally, a Western company looking to get into China would partner with a domestic company that could produce a localized marketing strategy, but Apple ignored that. Instead, it used much of the same kind of marketing that has helped it conquer the rest of the globe, and it worked just fine.
That means Apple isn’t splitting a significant portion of that $37 billion with anyone else.
Other Western companies are also making a dent in China. Microsoft generated a bit less than 10 percent of its $86.8 billion in fiscal-year 2014 revenues in China, and Sony brought in $4.4 billion from the country. While these aren’t Apple numbers, that is money that those companies cannot ignore.
In China, Apple is bigger than Tencent, Lenovo, and all other tech brands | GamesBeat | Games | by Jeff Grubb
If some people/members here think our governments in the west/U.S will forego this because of some useless islands(which several countries claim by the way), then i think they need to get their heads checked with all due respect.
same here bro. we always have similar views it seems.