Finally the Philippine government has done something wise about the claims of China. It has offered out the oil prospects claimed by China that is within the territorial waters of the Philippines. Oil exploration here would be done by foreign oil exploration companies because hardly any local company could do it. If China interferes or harasses these companies they will have to deal with the country of these nationalities.
The countries of these nationalities will defend them and the Philippines. The exploration is well within the territorial limits of the Philippines, recognized and accepted by the companies' countries. Should China meddle with their exploration and threaten them, it would obviously be an aggressive act against those nationalities provoking their countries and the Philippines.
When China was not yet "commercialized", so to speak, their only concern was to promote their communism within their country. Nothing really much about claiming ownership of whatever, outside their country. Now they map the entire South China sea as theirs and their territory including the Scarborough Shoal, which just a little over a hundred kilometers away from the Philippine coast. Would there be no more international waters anymore at the South China sea?
What if a Filipino or some Filipinos claim that their ancestors too have discovered a part of China, are they willing to leave or give out that area? History also might have it that Chinese were in the Philippines much earlier than the Spanish and Portuguese, why didn't or don't they lay claim on the Philippines now? Communist Chinese government officials' thinking are so absurd and ridiculous. They might make a "Tiananmen Square massacre" at the Scarborough Shoal if the Philippine Coast boats stand their ground there!
