Philippines warns China over potential act of war as tensions rise in South China Sea

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : Beijing asserts historical rights to much of the resource-rich South China Sea, which not only contains plentiful deposits of fossil fuels but today facilitates about $3.4 trillion in annual ship-borne trade.
49% : One possibility could be a new communications channel between the heads of US Indo-Pacific Command and China's Eastern Theatre Command - the two officers who would lead military operations if there was a war over Taiwan, wrote James Crabtree, a columnist in Foreign Policy.

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