| mountaindewslave said:
in the end there is only so far China will go to attempt to obtain the water around them, obviously it's a current priority but we're not seeing them push insanely hard yet because it would not be worth risking their trading partners. we'll see how much they ramp up building oil infrastructure out there and how their neighbors react and then how they react. these things take time though, China has just began it's attempt to take advantage of the sea on its borders so its quite hard to say yet if it will develop into an international conflict |
I agree with everything you said, except the bolded part because they already have done it. US Naval vessels can't even get close to those man made islands in international waters without being warned that they are tresspassing in China's territory. Again, that's international waters far from the disputed areas or Parcel and Spratlys.
Its just not getting much attention as Crimea or Syria because its over water.
You guys are probably right that China does not want to anger the US but with the US being weak willed and I'm pretty sure none of the west wants to go to war (I want to play Fallout 5 on a PC/console and not in real life). China's bluff is being extremely well played at the expense of ultra-super-duper weak country like mine. lol!
