Well you answered you own question the UN is worthless. Every other country in the world does not recognize communist china’s claim. We as the US have to insure FON not only for our military but for commerce that goes through that region. We have been in that regions for along time and are not going away not matter how much the china’s pout and scream. If they unfortunately shoot at us they will be looked at us as the aggressor then we go from there. I think they understand what that means, they arent stupid people.
Then we need to close the UN and start settling things at the point of a gun.