Pinoy islands was once belong to a emperor of China and Baguio was established as a captial, and therefore this water areas between mainland and Pinoy islands belong to China, historically speaking.
Only when the West divide the world map among themselves, Spanish was given Pinoy islands to invade. What was divided and invaded will be void for the Westerners. The deals among themselves was illegal...
The shore lines along waters are shared by the natives China, Vietnam Thailand, Malaysia, Pinoys, Sarawak and Indonesia, and named 南海.
When the usual suspect evil BE came they renamed to English language.
Time to drop English language and use Chinese language to reflect the original name of this waters and void the English language... use hanyu pinying is OK....
Chinese merchants moves up and down this coastal waters down to Temasek and go up to Penang Island Malaysia.... to trade with the natives there for 5 thousands years, in history...
Therefore, China claims this water region belong to China was right to protect this trade sea routes today.... take this with a pinch of salt.
If all electronic communications were radio silence by Alien humanoids, these water region will be protected by China and trading as usual along this coastal line among these region natives .... cannot trust bi-diectional transceiver equipment anymore... danger about....
Tioboh hope this helps, psst... if you like my bullshit click the like button....