Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi proposed a three-pronged solution to the disputes over the South China Sea while meeting with the chairman of the Asia Peace Reconciliation Council in Bangkok on August 2. The solution, which includes a commitment to exploring ways.
![Fishing boats set off for fishing from a fishing port in Qionghai City, south China's Hainan Province, Aug. 1, 2013. Fishermen resumed fishing as the two-and-half-month summer fishing moratorium in the South China Seaended on Thursday. [Photo: Guo Cheng/Xinhua]](http://images.china.cn/attachement/jpg/site1007/20130808/001ec949c22b136da46202.jpg "Fishing boats set off for fishing from a fishing port in Qionghai City, south China's Hainan Province, Aug. 1, 2013. Fishermen resumed fishing as the two-and-half-month summer fishing moratorium in the South China Seaended on Thursday. [Photo: Guo Cheng/Xinhua]")
Fishing boats set off for fishing from a fishing port in Qionghai City, south China’s Hainan Province, Aug. 1, 2013. Fishermen resumed fishing as the two-and-half-month summer fishing moratorium in the South China Sea ended on Thursday. [Photo: Guo Cheng/Xinhua]
It is never an easy task for a country to give ground over territorial disputes. In recent decades, dialogue and negotiation have gradually replaced wars and conflict as the preferred methods of resolving land and maritime territorial disputes, as the use of force is detrimental to the aggressive party and will never be an effective way to end a dispute.
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