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What is naive?
America wants to know
Thinking that real, physical naval power is not still the key to the security situation in the South China Seas and East Asia in general, and assuming that a nation won't act on what it sees as its strategic interests due to economic ties.
The problem is, if America, Japan and Taiwan stopped investing in and doing business in China because they JUST HAD TO HAVE some crappy little islands in the South China Sea, they'd cause more problems for themselve than it would be worth.
Right now, China has one crappy aircraft carrier they bought from the Russians that is still 30 years behind anything we have.
The thing about Globalism is that everyone has more to lose than gain by a war.
Remember the last time people were really, really sure there wouldn't be another war? It was part of the reason for the next one.