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Can you explain why you think that? I don't see any reason why that could be true. Actually just the opposite with China's policy of peaceful relations with the rest of the world and friendly persuasion toward countries in which they have an interest. Nowhere in the world today is China involved in military aggression, as the US is or was in Iraq, Syria, Vietnam, Korea, Iran, Venezuela, Panama, and over 30 others.Not really, because unlike China, both the US and USSR knew the limits they could push each other.
You have the order of events mixed up for Cuba. They had a successful revolution in which they escaped from under the evil Batista regime. Later they were assisted by the Soviets and even later demands of the US and the Soviet Union were exchanged in the Cuban missile crisis.The Cold War was a tight-wire act by both sides. Cube was once firmly in the US camp, but over a decade it changed, and fell into that of the USSR. Finland was always edging towards the USSR, hence the term "FInlandization".
There's no indication that China is trying to invade Taiwan. There is ample evidence to say that China won't allow Taiwan to align with the US.However, even before WWII the Chinese Nationalists (and their successors in Taipei) were firmly in the US camp. And China does not seem to get that trying to invade there would be like the US in the 1970s invading East Germany. That they are even talking like this simply shows to me that they are completely delusional, and are acting like they are some kind of "Master Race", as Italy-Japan-Germany thought in the late 1930's and early 1940s.
Calling China delusional only lowers the level of discussion to being N.A.That is something that worries me, as even the Soviets and US during the darkest days of the Cold War were not talking like that.
Again, you provide no explanation on why you would think that. My guess is that you're basing it on the fact that China and Russia are forming an alliance.Because both sides knew that was suicidal, so never did so. The current conditions with Russia and China are almost nothing like the Cold War, and much more like the days before WWII.
How will that lead to military aggression as opposed to peaceful cooperation by small countries that are up for grabs by both alliances?