Earlier this week Philippine President Benigno Aquino — a self-proclaimed “amateur student of history” — warned Japanese lawmakers that the continual appeasement of China with regard to Beijing’s island construction project in the South China Sea poses a similar risk to the global balance of power as the pre-war appeasement of Hitler.
China did not appreciate the reference and had the following advice for “certain people in The Philippines”:
“…cast aside [your] illusions and repent [and] stop provocations and instigations.”