WILL GIVE BRAINLIEST AND POINTS: The South China Sea has become the perfect sandpit for theoreticians to develop their ideas about how the world does, and should, work. Are humans, and the states they create, simply anarchic individuals who rampage over the land and sea until others of similar ilk bring them to heel? Or are we social beings who form communities and alliances and moderate our dealings with one another in the interests of collective well-being? Are we ego, or superego? Much like the sea itself, the academic sandpit is an environment where rival ideas can coexist until some development forces them into collision.