FRANCISCO S. TATAD
CHINA may have stirred more than a hornet’s nest when, in a speech before an Asean group in Taguig City last week, Foreign Minister Wang Yi warned non-regional forces not to interfere in any activity in the South China Sea, which is teeming with maritime territorial disputes. He was apparently referring to the United States, the world’s lone superpower and dominant presence in the Western Pacific, but which China likes to regard as an outsider poaching in an inland lake.