china's just being a big bully. it's involved in territorial disputes with a number of other asian nations, even if those areas are geographically far from the chinese mainland. they're good at coming up with 'ancient' texts to validate their claims, even if all they did was use them as trade routes hundreds, maybe thousands of years ago.

sonofqatar, they had something like the arab spring a very long time ago. in tiananmen.

japan's also involved in a territorial dispute with korea though.