China and the Philippines have had a long standing dispute between the water rights. Chia says their territorial rights go up real close the Philippines. The South China sea has been a hot bead with Tiawan also.
If your remember a few years back we sent a bunch of war ships as a show of force that we would protect theses countries. Not that China does still use the waters for shipping they just say that's their water,

China can not get past what human descency is.

The richest gov't in the world. read the articles the Chinese govt. human rights has not changed at all

China Offers Modest Aid to Philippines After Typhoon Haiyan.Search Southeast Asia Real Time1 .
Article Video Slideshow Comments (8) Southeast Asia Real Time HOME PAGE ».
smaller Larger .facebook twitter google plus linked in EmailPrint
smaller Larger facebooktwittergoogle pluslinked inEmailPrint
By Brian Spegele@bspegele Brian.Spegele@wsj.com BiographyCONNECT@bspegele Brian.Spegele@wsj.com BiographyDisaster in the Philippines hasn’t been quite enough to ease hard feelings held by some in China.


Associated Press
A survivor stands outside her damaged house at typhoon ravaged Tacloban city, Leyte province, central Philippines. See more photos of the storm’s aftermath.More In philippines
In the Philippines, a Soldier Falls Next to Gen. MacArthur
As Aid Comes to Typhoon-Ravaged Philippines, UN Appeals for More
Typhoon Won’t Deter Foreign Investment, Official Says
U.S. Sends Ships to Typhoon Ravaged Philippines
Philippine Health Authorities Fear Outbreak of Illnesses

At least seven people in the mainland were confirmed dead by Tuesday morning as a typhoon that ravaged the Philippines struck China’s southern provinces. State-controlled China National Radio reported on in its website Tuesday that the storm had affected some 2.3 million people in the southern provinces of Guangxi and Hainan.

The radio station reported the storm was the strongest to hit the mainland in the month of November since the Communist Party rose to power in 1949.

Still, the devastation paled in comparison to the hit in the Philippines, where the latest death toll topped 1,700. On its widely watched noon broadcast, the official China Central Television showed Filipino victims calling for aid from Manila. Discussion on China’s online social media surged Tuesday once the storm hit China.

So far, China’s aid to the Philippines has been modest. On Monday, China’s embassy in Manila said the Red Cross Society of China offered $100,000 in disaster relief. China’s Foreign Ministry said Monday it is preparing assistance, without offering details.

video
Thousands Still Missing in Philippines
14:52

Challenges ahead as relief agencies struggle to provide food and medicine to survivors of supertyphoon Haiyan. Amazon plans to begin delivering packages on Sundays in New York and Los Angeles with an unlikely partner: the U.S. Postal Service.

The U.S. government said it was offering $20 million in humanitarian relief. Separately on Monday, defense officials said a U.S. aircraft carrier and other ships with a total of 5,000 sailors and 80 aircraft were heading to the Philippines to assist in relief efforts.

Others are contributing. Like the Chinese Red Cross, Toronto-Dominion BankTD.T +0.36% is also donating $100,000.

China is often a much bigger donor. After a magnitude-7.7 earthquake struck western Pakistan in September, China quickly offered more than $5 million in supplies and other aid to its longtime strategic partner. When a similar magnitude-7.1 earthquake struck the Philippines in October, China’s embassy announced $80,000 in relief through the Red Cross.

China and the Philippines are far from allies, and have been locked in a long-running territorial dispute over sections of the South China Sea.

The embassy’s statement didn’t appear in Chinese, and news of the relief funds weren’t widely reported in the Chinese press.

Still, some who noticed praised the apparent restraint. “I don’t think China should actively assist the Philippines,” wrote one user of Sina’s Weibo microblogging service. “China needs to help those from Hainan and Guangxi provinces which also suffered from this typhoon.”

“As a taxpayer I strongly protest” against aid for the Philippines, wrote another user.

China’s government appears to be balancing its international obligations as a powerful Asian nation against domestic concerns in some corners against providing aid to the Philippines, particularly as many in China are suffering from the same storm.

To be sure, foreign aid comes under pressure in other places. And with the images on state media came calls from some unlikely sources to help the Philippines.

“Current island disputes are only a brief moment of history,” wrote the nationalist tabloid Global Times, which often takes a hard line against China’s neighbors in territorial disputes, in a Tuesday editorial headlined “Island spat shouldn’t block typhoon aid.”

The dispute “deserves our serious attention, but shouldn’t stop us from doing what it necessary,” it concluded.