The shoe is on the other foot in South China Sea dispute

First word THE English idiom, “the shoe is on the other foot,” perfectly captures the situation today in the South China Sea (SCS) and the continuing dispute between China and the Philippines over their respective claims in the sea region. It simply means, according to Merriam-Webster and other English dictionaries, that a situation has changed to the opposite of what it was before. The point of the idiomatic phrase is that the roles of people in a situation have been reversed, such that the advantage has shifted to a party which was previously disadvantaged. The situation in the South China…