Rasputin_Vol
"Slava Ukraina"
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It's just that nobody besides the Chinese are building up the atolls with runways that could handle a full loaded B-52, support staff, munitions storage, defensive (and perhaps offensive) missile capability, and radar systems to detect "intruders". We had a little problem when that was done on an island just off our coast; why shouldn't any number of countries feel similarly about Chinese provocation?
Well, you are addressing two things. Totally different scenarios.
First off, China is not staging to go to war with Malaysia, The Philippines, Vietnam or Brunei. Again, this is all about protecting shipping lanes from any future/potential US/Western lead provocation that could bottle up the Straits of Malacca and freeze imports and exports to China and their soon to be established "Silk Road" trade agreements. To spin this as anything more than that is to be either uniformed or intentionally disingenuous.
Secondly, the US already placed missiles in Turkey. The Soviet response to that action by the US was to place missiles in Cuba.