I think it’s inevitable.
China can’t be content with what it has. With all it’s land mass, it still has eyes on more.
Tiawan, Japan, either parts of their territories or more, they want the region to be their sole property.
If they ever get Taiwan and Japan, look out south of China and even into India.
That’s why you have to stand up to China. If it gets an inch, it will be inclined to compete for the planet.
Right now it’s busy occupying Eastern Russia. Eastern Russia has the same problem with the Chinese that we have with Mexican nationals.
It goes both ways, as Russians have occupied Chinese territory. Back in the early 1970s, a co-worker was an elderly Russian man who survived Japanese death camps during WWII. We had some interesting chats. He was one of many Russians in a town in China when the Japanese overran it. Lots of Russians in China back then in the 1930s. Land fought over by Chinese, Russians, Japanese, Mongols etc. for many centuries. Now the Chinese are feeling more powerful these days to throw their weight around. Part of those regional problems I mentioned earlier, deflecting them from concern about any hostilities with the USA. They have enough to worry about with India, Russia, etc., pretty much anyone bordering their country in or out.
I can forsee Japan and S. Korea going nuclear and building their forces in self defense from China.
That was a fundamental part of the groundbreaking work "Camp of the Saints": Millions of Chinamen invade and occupy Siberia and there's not a dang thing Russia could do about it.
PS: Everything I know about war with China I learned from Dragon's Fury by FReeper Jeff Head, which I read almost 20 years ago.
I sure hope Jeff is still alive. He is a great patriot. He was a conservative mentor to me in my early adulthood.
I've known you for a long time, think we met at BobJ's house once and talked at a FR event. I have always respected your informed opinion and mostly agreed with your geopolitics. However, see my post #16 to see what I think of modern day China.