SUBSCRIBE to Next Media Animation: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=NMAtv<br /><br />China and the Philippines have been locked in a month-long standoff at Scarborough Shoal, a small uninhabited reef in the South China Sea. The standoff is part of a larger regional struggle for control of several small, possibly oil-rich island chains in the region.<br /><br />Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/NMAtv<br />Webpage: http://www.nma.tv/<br />Twitter @nmatv: https://twitter.com/#!/nmatv<br />Tumblr: http://nmatv.tumblr.com/<br /><br />Incredibly, though China's southernmost tip is Hainan Island, it claims almost the whole of the South China Sea as its own.<br /><br />Meanwhile, Chinese oil company CNOOC has begun exploring for oil in another disputed island chain.<br /><br />Anti-Chinese sentiment is beginning to swell. Who is going to tell the Chinese just how ridiculous their claims are?
