Can the Philippines peacefully settle territorial disputes with China in the WPS?

Answering this question need to cite the work of  M. Taylor Fravel, an American political scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).  In his study based on his doctoral dissertation, Fravel undercores that China has been involved in at least 23 difficult territorial disputes since 1949. 

Fravel observed that China’ resolution of the other disputes involved difficult compromise agreements in which China received only a miniscule part of the contested territory. In major cases, China offered generous compromises giving in more than 50 percent of the disputed land in favor of the neighbors.