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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.

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