China is happy to see that the long-standing jurisdictional claims and territorial disputes in the south china sea have yielded to the attention over comprehensive security in the region, tackling the non-traditional security issues such as economic and environmental security, piracy, transnational crimes, and maritime terrorism .But it feels that after the September terror attacks, the SCS polity of the United states has evolved slowly but steadily from neutrality to active neutrality, and will continue to evolve into one of active concern. It might be even willing to intervene on sovereignty issues. It is concerned over the recent U.S. attempts to station troops in the straits of Malacca. Chinese strategists are also studying the implications of the increasing security role by both Japan and India in the SCS.