Insights | Disrupting South China Sea, U.S. and Philippines to 'reap what they sow': expert

The U.S. has been inciting and supporting its allies like the Philippines to pick quarrels in the South China Sea, and even formed small coalitions to provoke trouble, seriously threatening regional peace and stability, said Yang Xiao, marine expert from China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations (CICIR) during an exclusive interview with China News Network.

Yang pointed out that the Philippine government refuses to hold any dialogue, communication or consultation with China and even undermines the established mechanisms for conflict resolutions, which make disputes more complicated, and in turn would harm its own economic development and people's lives..