USS destroyer sailing by chinese disputed islands

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.
 
China has already fought the Philippines and Vietnam, so saying they aren't staging to go to war is a blatant lie. It may not be formal war but when you have military vessels exchanging live rounds and people dying a couple times a decade that is hardly peaceful maintenance of sea lanes.
 
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Tell me again why this is any of our business? Don't we have bigger concerns right here in America than to be concerned about waters halfway around the globe?

US Rejects Chinese Claim To South China Sea In Major Reversal Of Obama-Era Appeasement


I don't know Ras, China is enemy number 1, and we keep allowing them to just sit back and laugh. The new deal with Iran yesterday should say all that needs to be said.

They are, and have been, what they declared in the early 1990's, and we stupidly, have put our hands out and given them the resources needed to be able to play ball with the USA.

Think of this absurdity, we have this "virus" originating from China, and here we are, freaking out and going all masks and sanitizer and fear lorn on anything medical, and guess what, where is most of that stuff coming from......the idiocy of America is astounding.

They laugh at us, and having spent much time working with the Chinese and Taiwanese and having been there many times, it is not a hidden secret, they know we are soft, weak, and don't have the stomach for what will be needed to break China's growing grasp, both economically/financially and militarily ( we have the might, not the resolve or conviction ).

So, can we, live side by side with China and basically come to an agreement they get that side of the world.....and allow them to do as they please......because that is what is going on now, just in a f*** you to the world sort of way, and guess what, ain't nobody stopping them from doing anything......at all.

If they were trustworthy, yes, I'm with you.

But, they are not, and they are going to be a major thorn, or the the spear of transversal or longitudinal impalement.

Yes, we have enough issues here at home to deal with sadly, but, can't preclude us from the bigger stage.
 
Iran and North Korea along with Russia would possibly join China in the war.
Russia has no desire to engage in a direct war with us they know the cost. They’re happy with the back and forth agitating proxy wars.

And if Iran so much as farts wrong if hostilities break out Israel will wipe them from the earth with a nuclear exchange.
 

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