A different point of view

Time moves on and circumstances change.

So here is the background story of where and how China has come to take the stance it has over the South China sea atolls and small islands:

http://en.people.cn/n3/2016/0101/c90000-8998154.html

The history of the US in its seizure of islands is hardly a creditable story.

People who live in coconut tree houses should really not be throwing coconuts at other people who also live in coconut tree houses.