IF the United States has been Uncle Sam to us Filipinos, since practically the 1900s, then China is the proverbial Big Brother dating back to the 13th Century. But in the current scheme of geopolitics over the South China Sea, the relationships have become more complicated.

Washington and Beijing are now sources of some of our anxiety.

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