tiffac said:
In our case, China just wants to take the entire South China Sea. Its more like a resource grab than anything strategic. I kid you not, the US is not starting anything here, this is a simply a Chinese ambition for global power and China is not reacting to anything either, they are just doing it because they can. Oh hell! Sounds familiar. lol! I guess if anything they have a role model with the US. xD Also, the US is at its weakest in terms of influence here in Asia, there is a reason Japan is arming itself because everyone feels the US will not act when China goes full gun-ho, well at least until the next President takes office. I guess. :/ |
I'm not quite getting this kind of sentiments from people from anti-Chinese coalition nations the US is building up in the South China Sea. I could understand a political sense behind this, but don't see why regular people have problems with Chinese. Even if I put myself in the shoes of Vietnamese or Filipino shouldn't I be more of anti-Americanist given previous conflicts with the US cost them both at least 2m and 200 thousands of civilian deaths respectively? So even if we consider China is "evil", shouldn't it be lesser evil in people's minds even though that is totally subjective?
And if anything South China Sea is a pot with a lot of holes, which could be easily closed military-wise and on which PCR depends (energy imports, commodities exports). Resource grab doesn't sound convincing, but threat of economic blockade if very much real. So it makes a lot of sense to build up military infrastructure there. They're desperate enough to build artificial islands solely for that purpose.
