China is slowly extending military domination over the Japanese Senkaku islands. For years it has used threats of force to stop Japanese fishing boats from going there.

Since oil seems to be part of the motivation for this dispute, as well as many other disputes in the sea near China, the best solution would be for all the countries involved to agree never to extract any fossil fuel from the sea bottom there. We need to leave 80% of known fossil fuel reserves in the ground, plus all other unknown fossil fuels. Why not start with fuels that there is a dispute over?