This is the
ASEAN area roughly from Singapore
up to the Strait of Taiwan with around 3,500,000 square kilometers. It has a strategic importance
since almost half of the world's international shipping is on container ships through these waters.
That is an important trade route for China since they carry their merchandise through here since about two thousand years. Actually, the present ownership claims of this water body of the red emperors in Beijing is ridiculous since there are more countries around it appears as if the communists want to ride on a nationalist tsunami so they resurrect the Emperors ideology of medieval ages.
Although everyone believes the area hold huge oil and gas reserves underneath nothing substantial has been found yet but the strategical importance in trading products over the sea is undeniable. But one asset the Pacific Ocean in that part has, this are fine
South Sea Pearls
grown in different colors and sizes up to 15 cm diameter.
Some of the most interesting trading products of the region are are South Sea Pearls in various color just have alook at this beautiful golden and silver spheres. Although entirely traded as cultured pearls they are are absolute gorgeous and have the same quality as natural beads by any means. The beads pictured here are from the warm waters of the Andaman Sea in south Myanmar and they mostly sold at Bogyoke Market in
Yangon
in various forms. I also saw them in some shops in
Davao Philippines
with
very unique
colors in the dark red spectrum,
Why the Chinese do this?
Officially Beijing's claim
history data
as the reason: Since ancient times, crossed Chinese fishermen operated in the waters around the Paracel and the Spratly Islands. They say it is only logical that Beijing claims these islands now beside and defending. Few international legal experts accept this argument, and hardly anyone expects it will follow in the Hague Court of Arbitration.
How dangerous is the island dispute?
The real reason for Beijing's island expansion seems to be a strategic one. China, the largest trade and second-largest economy in the world, faces the sea of two "chains of islands" surrounded: one stretching from Japan through the
Philippines
to Indonesia, the other from the Aleutian Islands to the Marianas island of Guam. Almost all of these territories are either with the United States in alliance or as Guam, itself part of America.
If there were ever a conflict with Washington, so fear China's generals, they were encircled. At least they're maritime court so the South China Sea issue must be under their Chinese control they could think. Not to forget, they are still hanging on to a communist totalitarian Philosophy of the 19th-century and they simply are notorious liars they will never give up their pathologic mental state.
What about the US?


The USA sees itself as born in Hawaii President Barack Obama says, as "a Pacific nation", since the end of World War II, the ships of the U.S. Navy Cross in the western Pacific. They have secured the Pacific at least since the Vietnam War, the maritime routes in the region and countries like South Korea, Taiwan and Japan the economic advancement allows.
Washington and its allies actually disrupt China's expansion in the South China Sea a decade’s proven status quo. Beijing erected with its artificial islands a "Great Wall of self-isolation", so warned US Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter at a security conference in Singapore which is also an issue for the ASEAN nations.
Most military and defense leaders of the region agreed but won’t call China by name because their economic dependence on its big neighbor is overwhelming butasusual politicians don’t know what’s really going on. Because they are the biggest consumer crowd in the Chinese backyard, the communists need them as a market for their usually substandard goods nobody else in the world will ever buy. That means they have the leverage of their consumer base which finally means Chinese need them more as they do China. The background is that most politicians and rich people in the ASEAN are of Chinese origin and that is what the communists are counting on.

News about the conflict from Thailand and Vietnam
For years, incidents accumulate in the airspace over the South China Sea, which comes close to American reconnaissance plane and Chinese fighter dangerously getting close to them, in mid-May a collision was avoided only by 20 meters at this games. Here are South China sea news about conflicts and other more interesting things to do.
There are reports that Beijing is planning the establishment of an air traffic control zone over the region. Which would mean that traffic has to register with the Chinese before they enter the airspace over the South China Sea? 2013 Beijing had declared such a zone in the East China Sea. The Pentagon sent two B52 bombers, and the pilot did not report into the Chinese. Beijing left it a diplomatic protest.
Neither Beijing nor Washington is likely to be really interested in an escalation. Too much is at stake. China and the US should work together to strengthen an "Asia-Pacific Security Network" suggested US Secretary of Defense Carter in Singapore. Even China's President Xi Jinping played down the significance of the conflict after meeting with John Kerry, “The relations between the two world powers were "quite normal," he said. The Pacific was "no arena for rivalries".
What does the conflict mean for Europe?
Lots of traffic is here since almost one-third of the international maritime transport routes running through the South China Sea, including the massive oil and gas supplies from the Middle East to China and Japan as well as the majority of China's exports to Europe. Actually whatever happens China's dominance in the western Pacific is increasing year by year.