[Zhang Fei]

A military confrontation with China is likely. The only question now is who the players will be. All of China's neighbors will benefit from China being slapped down. But nobody wants to incur the cost of being a participant in the process of slapping China down. Ultimately, the biggest winners will be the ones who remain neutral, much like Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and Turkey during WWII.

[Gay State Conservative]

If Vietnam,the Philippines,Indonesia,Thailand or Taiwan think they're gonna come out of this with a single square foot of the territory in question they should consider this....China's navy is growing by 10% a year and has been doing so for 10 years or more.

[stuartcr]

What is your solution?

[Last Dakotan]

My prediction is Taiwan will defend itself down to the last American sailor, all the while loading container vessels with consumer goods bound for the US.

[thackney]

[ScottinVA]

A military confrontation with China is likely.

Unless we're willing to unleash unconventional weapons, we will not defeat them in that region.

[dfwgator]

Looking a lot like the 1930s again, only this time it’s China trying to create the Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere.

[DoughtyOne]

I don’t think we’ve seen anything yet. Wait ‘till China decides it is the right-full owner of all land traditionally a part of it at some high-water point in it’s history.

We can then expect to see more nearby nations absorbed.

China is expansionist. The planet is in for a rough ride thank to the Free Traitors.

Chruschev was right. He just had the wrong nation. And we didn’t sell the rope, we bought it before they used it on us.

[DesertRhino]

Well, i know who those islands and their oil DON’T belong to, that us. We have no claim to them, so we should stay out of it unless they ever try to impede sea lanes.
Freedom of navigation is the only thing for us to go to war over there.

Are we really interested in war on behalf of the Phillipines? They kicked us out. On behalf of Vietnam? Please. On behalf of Taiwan who wants to stake claims 1500 miles from Taiwan?
Im much more interested in China drilling right off the Florida Keys. If we wont enforce our clear territorial and oil interests in the Gulf of Mexico, why in hell should we fight over the Spratley islands? Insane.

[DesertRhino]

“China’s neighbors are looking to the United States to deal with the local bully, and so far the Americans have been reluctant to get that involved”

So Vietnam, the PI, and Taiwan want us to go to war with China, over the oil rich Spratleys? I have a better idea. Get together, build a navy and an army, and send a bunch of asian boys to defend your own asian interests. If you won;t die for it, why should some kid from Nebraska?
It’s angering, the way every corner on earth looks at the USA as running to fight everyone elses fight.

Besides, we are very busy trying to get involved in other wars we have nothing to do with in Uganda and Syria.

[Zhang Fei]

Strategy Page article FYI

[bcat]

Interesting article. Please write more.