At this point, we are very tired of getting into historical dispute over territory. The rule of the game will always remain the same. Who got bigger ball with bigger gun? You know the West didn't enjoy supremacy if they didn't have ball and big gun to impose their long distance offshore territories. Now let talk logic, shall we? We are a nuclear power state, 2nd in economy, 3rd in military, and have enormous potential. How do you plan to wrestle it away from us?
If you don't do it today, you will not have the opportunity to do it in the future when we grow a lot stronger today. 2 carrier battlegroups are just a start in 2020s. By 2040s, we will triple that to 6 or even 10. This is not mentioning we will have drone to patrol the area 24 hours. Since Paracel is much closer to our NAVY headquarter in Hainan. We can easily retake it in case you try to invade and take it away from us. My friend, reality kicks in and it hurts. LOL