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American and Filipino forces launched a joint operation against the Moros in the [[Mamasapano clash]], in which Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) fighters manage to kill 44 Filipino police commandos and caused massive blow back for the botched raid, putting a decisive halt to American plans for its Asia military "pivot" in the Philippines.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Cloud |first1=David S. |last2=Leon |first2=Sunshine de |author=|date=September 10, 2015 <!-- 3:36 AM --> |title= A heavy price paid for botched terrorist raid by Philippines and U.S. |url= http://www.latimes.com/world/asia/la-fg-botched-terror-raid-20150910-story.html |newspaper= Los Angeles Times |location= MANILA |access-date= }}</ref> Moros have reported that “4 caucasian-looking (American) soldiers” were killed in the Mamasapano clash along with the 44 Filipinos.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://mnlfnet.com/Articles/Editorial_28Sept2015_Beware%20of%20Aquino%20Govt's%20Conspiracy.htm |title="BEWARE OF AQUINO GOVERNMENT’S CONSPIRACY TO FOOL THE MNLF, OIC, MOROS AND HUMANITY." – MNLF VICE-CHAIRMAN OLAMIT| author= |date= 28 September 2015 |website=mnlfnet.com |publisher= Moro National Liberation Front (Misuari faction) |accessdate= 28 September 2015 }}</ref>

Japanese scholar Taoka Shunji criticized Japanese Prime Minister [[Shinzo Abe]] for trying to falsely portray China as a threat to Japan and that it was invading its neighbors like the Philippines, and pointed out that the Spratly islands were not part of the Philippines when the US acquired the Philippines from Spain in the Treaty of Paris in 1898, and the Japanese ruled Taiwan itself had annexed the Spratly islands in 1938 and the US ruled Philippines did not challenge the move and never asserted that it was their territory, he also pointed out that other countries did not need to do full land reclamation since they already control islands and that the reason China engaged in extensive land reclamation is because they needed it to build airfields since China only has control over reefs.<ref>{{cite journal |last = Taoka|first = Shunji|others = Translated by Rumi Sakamoto|last2 = |first2 = |date = September 21, 2015|title = ‘China Threat Theory’ Drives Japanese War Legislation|url = http://www.japanfocus.org/-Taoka-Shunji/4380/article.html|journal = The Asia-Pacific Journal|publisher = Japan Focus|volume = 13|issue = 38 no. 5|pages = |doi = |access-date = 26 September 2015}}</ref>

Champa historically had a large presence in the South China Sea. The Vietnamese broke Champa's power in [[Cham–Vietnamese War (1471)|an invasion of Champa in 1471]], and then finally conquered the last remnants of the Cham people in an invasion in 1832. A Cham named Katip Suma who received Islamic education in Kelantan declared a [[Jihad]] against the Vietnamese, and fighting continued until the Vietnamese crushed the remnants of the resistance in 1835. The Cham organisation Front de Libération du Champa was part of the [[United Front for the Liberation of Oppressed Races]], which waged war against the Vietnamese for independence in the [[Vietnam War]] along with the [[Degar|Montagnard]] and [[Khmer Krom]] minorities. The last remaining FULRO insurgents surrendered to the United Nations in 1992.