japan is on the top priority list for china, and its much more capable compare to vietnam/phillippine. Australia just paranoid something, but it doesn't have anything with china dispute, and will not get involve, they need chinas $$ for their ore.And what about Japan, Taiwan? And Australia is even more paranoid about China than us!
Taiwan has much warming relationship with china than before, and it will keep going that direction, since most its bussiness are associate with mainland.
vietnam/phillipine are just thorn in the flesh for china, but japan is a sledgehammer. other asean is not gonna help vietnam/ph and get involve into the dispute, not even US will get involved. and china is not gonna use force, its much too clever for that. it will use it softpower