当上述主张与其他国家的主张相冲突（其中多数确实如此 ） ， 中国必须做好解决这些问题的准备，最好能通过国际判决或仲裁，但迄今为止中国一直强烈抵制这样的做法，或者至少也应当是真正能够做出妥协和退让的协商。
When those claims overlap with claims by other states, as most of them do, China must be prepared to resolve them, preferably by international adjudication or arbitration, which it has so far strongly resisted, or at the very least by genuine give-and-take negotiation.