I disagree. What's normal about China's greediness?
In the 60's and 70's, the Philippines was among the wealthiest nations in the World. In Asia, we are next to Japan. Our military power was also among the strongest in Asia. We were powerful nation back then. But we didn't use force to assert our claims to these territories, especially our claim on Sabah.
let's look at the history
1. Roman empire - Julius Caesar attack the Gauls and sold them to slavery
2. The height Spanish empire went to South America as conquistador they plundered impregnated the local women
3. Aztec and Mayan performed human sacrifice so to get humans they need to invade tribes
4. British invade India, New Zealand, Australia or almost half of the world
a. the british attack the maori tribe in New zealand close to extinction
5. USA almost drive the Bison close to extinction and even conquered the lands of the american Indians
and many more
brutality
1. Japan
2. Germany - Adolf Hitler
3. Russia
we almost attack Sabah
Diosdado Macapagal issued a order to all filipino young men to undergo a military training one is my aunt's husband they were wondering why they were doing some military drills
and they believe a special force a commando unit will commence the attack
but the plan was caught by election time so the operations was in halt
at the time of Marcos they planned again to attack Sabah, some said Ninoy squeal the plan
so to counter the threat the Malaysian government funded a guerrilla troops in our own country one was Mr. Nur involve