Really? Um, let's compare how many places China has invaded since 1949 vs. how many the US has invaded.
China- Intervened in Korea when UN forces got too close to their border in 1950, had a territorial dispute with India in 1962, and invaded Vietnam for about three weeks in 1979 in retaliation for Vietnam invading Cambodia.
The US intervened in Korea in 1950, Lebanon in 1958, Vietnam in 1965, the Dominican Republic in 1965, invaded, bombed Cambodia and Laos in 1970, fought Libya in the 1980s, invaded Lebanon again in 1983, Invaded Grenada in 1983, Iraq in 1991 to liberate kuwait, well, I could go on and on.
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Seems to me that the US is more militarily aggressive than China is.
How is that any different than the way the US has acted in the Americas since the Monroe Doctrine was enacted?
I'll agree that Xi is a problematic leader, but let's not make more of it than it is. The Chinese are not our enemy, and we'd be stupid to make them one. China has not invaded Taiwan (even though. legally, they'd be on pretty strong ground if they did) and they have allowed Hong Kong to maintain its own political system.
The Philippines just elected the son of the bastard who put the country under Martial Law 50 years ago; it makes you wonder about their collective judgment.
Actually, Burma is pretty friendly to China as well, but they are undergoing a civil war where China might need to intervene.
So, your argument that the Chinese won't take everything, is that the US has invaded more countries because China has literally been a poor country for most of that time? Not a great argument, is it?
China also invaded the Paracel Islands during the Vietnam war (yeah, go support your Communist brothers by stealing their islands when they're at war).
China have decided that the Senkaku Islands are theirs when.... Mao even called them the Senkaku Islands (Japanese name) rather than the Diaoyu Islands because at the time China didn't care. Never mind that all their arguments are so dodgy.
Then there's the whole of the South China Seas, China's justification "we have a map that shows that a Chinese person once went to each of these places, so they're ours" "oh yeah? Where's the map?" "Oh, well, the guy who had the map threw it away, it doesn't matter though, the map used to exist, so they're ours"
India and a whole region of India that China has been fighting over. Troops have been killed as recently as a few years ago. Why? Well, China invaded Tibet and Tibet had claimed this region, but then made a deal with the British but the Chinese couldn't give a damn about it.
Oh, and Bhutan which China claims 1/3rd of the whole country.
But you're right, aside from all this land and sea claiming, there's nothing.
Yes, the US is more militarily aggressive than China, that does not mean that China isn't doing anything.
China is so the US's enemy. Nothing you can do about it. Why?
Xi needs enemies. He's running a dictatorship and he needs to keep his people happy with his rule. He's pumped up the rhetoric with Japan, people hate Japan more and more every year. Japan doesn't even need to do anything for it to be considered "evil".
Some young famous guy went to Japan on a trip, went to the infamous war shrine and was subsequently banned from being on TV or whatever it was he did. Apparently the Chinese people, who are kept ignorant of most things, are expected to know they can't go to this shrine.
Just like the US and USSR needed each other to have their scare tactics to keep their populations in check, China has the same need.
They haven't invaded Taiwan yet because they don't have the military strength to do so. Xi has been rebuilding the armed forces into a professional armed forces, rather than just a bunch of kids with guns. Hong Kong's political system is a total joke, always was, the only reason "democracy" is a thing is because the British gave it to them in the last 3 years of their rule.
Burma isn't very friendly right now. You should look up what's going on with the scammers, they all got arrested or killed, they all had "guanxi" with the Burmese govt. A warlord called Peng went to the Chinese and said "help me against the Myanmar govt and I'll stopped the scammers, so the Chinese went with the warlord over the military govt of Myanmar.
The Philippines is in a difficult position. It either goes with the US, who may or may not help them out with China, or it goes with China who'll **** them over.
Look at Cambodia and Laos, big friends of China's, and China is damming the Mekong river and these countries are suffering big time because of it. If China weren't so powerful, it'd have ended up in war already. I can see both countries joining an anti-Chinese alliance in the future, once their dictators are dead and someone else takes over.
China said the US was responsible for "deliberate stirring up" of tensions in the South China Sea, after US warship navigated through waters claimed by Beijing. "On Dec 4, littoral combat ship USS Gabrielle Giffords illegally entered the waters adjacent to Ren'ai Reef in the Nansha region of China without the approval of the Chinese government," Southern Theatre Command spokesman Tian Junli said. China's military on Monday "followed the entire operation", said Tian, adding that "deliberate stirring up of the South China Sea by US is a serious infringement of China's sovereignty and security".
