‘Please help’: Del Rosario and Gazmin with their US counterparts during their April 30, 2012 meeting.
On May 9, the People’s Liberation Army Daily ran a toughly worded editorial saying that China would not tolerate any violation of Chinese sovereignty on Scarborough Shoal. According to the editorial, “Not only will the Chinese government not agree, nor will the Chinese people, and the Chinese Army will disagree even more.” The flurry of threatening editorials from the PLA newspaper underscored its well-known hardline stance when it comes to territorial disputes.