[ansel12]

I doubt that China is happy about the West’s military buildup, new weapons factories, larger budgets, more cooperation, expanded alliance, and all the movement to get the same thing together with the allies in the Pacific, with the same manufacturing increases, cooperation, and new military readiness with larger budgets, and they really can’t be happy that NATO is warming up to helping us in the Pacific.

[marktwain]

I doubt that China is happy about the West’s military buildup, new weapons factories, larger budgets, more cooperation, expanded alliance, and all the movement to get the same thing together with the allies in the Pacific, with the same manufacturing increases, cooperation, and new military readiness with larger budgets, and they really can’t be happy that NATO is warming up to helping us in the Pacific.

You may be correct. Those may be unexpected consequences, and why China has not invaded Taiwan during this period of weakness in the USA while their compromised candidate has been in the White House.