As China continues to rubup uneasily against its maritime neighbors, including Japan, which occupies another set of disputed islands, these seas could get stormier.
They act as giant petri dishes, where creative types and entrepreneurs rubup against each other, combining and recombining to spark new ideas, new inventions, new businesses and new industries.
Both for what it says about changing attitudes towards aid in Africa, as well as the more familiar chaffing that occurs when pride, philanthropy, poverty and celebrity rubup against each other.